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Evolution of late-life mortality in Drosophila melanogaster.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2002
Rose Michael R, Drapeau Mark D, Yazdi Puya G, Shah Kandarp H, Moise Diana B, Thakar Rena R, Rauser Casandra L, Mueller Laurence D
Abstract excerpt
Aging appears to cease at late ages, when mortality rates roughly plateau in large-scale demographic studies. This anomalous plateau in late-life mortality has been explained theoretically in two ways: (1) as a strictly demographic result of heterogeneity in life-long robustness between individuals within cohorts, and (2) as an evolutionary result of the plateau in the force of natural selection after the end of...
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