Article
Diagnosing senescence: inferring evolutionary causes from phenotypic patterns can be misleading.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Dec 1995
Blarer A, Doebeli M, Stearns S C
Abstract excerpt
Based on the predictions of two theories for the evolution of senescence, the 'antagonistic pleiotropy' and the 'mutation accumulation' theory, an age-specific increase in mortality and a decrease in fecundity are widely used criteria to diagnose senescence in natural, and laboratory populations....
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Fertility
- Male
- Models, Biological
- Mortality
- Mutation
- Phenotype