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Menopause has not evolved as a general trait in mammals: A response to ‘Do mammals have menopause?’

2024-03-03

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Reproductive senescence is widespread across mammals, but only a small number of species have physiological reproductive cessation and an extended post-reproductive lifespan. A recent commentary in Cell by Winkler & Goncalves (2023) suggests that menopause is actually a widespread trait of mammals, which would change our understanding of senescence and have implications for the study of menopaus...

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Literature Corpus work: 3948ab06-4189-5754-b381-087ea4f569d3
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.29.582687

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