Toward reconciling inferences concerning genetic variation in senescence in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Standard models for senescence predict an increase in the additive genetic variance for log mortality rate late in the life cycle. Variance component analysis of age-specific mortality rates of related cohorts is problematic. The actual mortality rates are not observable and can be estimated only crudely at early ages when few individuals are dying and at late ages when most are dead. Therefore, standard...

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