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Catastrophic senescence and semelparity in the Penna aging model.
Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften - 1 Jun 2011
Piñol Chrysline Margus, Banzon Ronald
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The catastrophic senescence of the Pacific salmon is among the initial tests used to validate the Penna aging model. Based on the mutation accumulation theory, the sudden decrease in fitness following reproduction may be solely attributed to the semelparity of the species. In this work, we report...
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