Constant mortality and fertility over age in Hydra

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 15701-15706

  Schaible, Ralf ^a   Scheuerlein, Alexander ^a   Dańko, Maciej J ^a   Gampe, Jutta ^a   Martínez, Daniel E ^b   Vaupel, James W ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Max Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging   (Denmark)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Biodemography; Clonal reproduction; Invertebrates; Nonsenescence

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; HYDRA; HYDRA MAGNIPAPILLATA; HYDRA VULGARIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE HISTORY; MATURITY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HYDRA; LIFE EXPECTANCY;

EID: 84952685631     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521002112     Document Type: Article

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