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Reduced lifespan and increased ageing driven by genetic drift in small populations.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2014
Lohr Jennifer N, David Patrice, Haag Christoph R
Abstract excerpt
Explaining the strong variation in lifespan among organisms remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology. Whereas previous work has concentrated mainly on differences in selection regimes and selection pressures, we hypothesize that differences in genetic drift may explain some of this varia...
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