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    Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

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    2013-10
    Author
    Jones, Owen R.  Concept link
    Scheuerlein, Alexander  Concept link
    Salguero-Gomez, Roberto  Concept link
    Camarda, Carlo Giovanni  Concept link
    Schaible, Ralf  Concept link
    Casper, Brenda B.  Concept link
    Dahlgren, Johan P.  Concept link
    Ehrlen, Johan  Concept link
    Garcia, María B.  Concept link
    Menges, Eric S.  Concept link
    Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F.  Concept link
    Caswell, Hal  Concept link
    Baudisch, Annette  Concept link
    Vaupel, James W.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6426
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    https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12789
    Abstract
    Evolution drives and is driven by demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype’s age-patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns in turn determine the genotype’s fitness in that environment. Hence, to understand the evolution of ageing, age-patterns of mortality and reproduction need to be compared for species across the tree of life. Yet few studies have done so and only for a limited range of taxa. Here we contrast standardised age patterns for 11 mammals, 12 other vertebrates, 10 invertebrates, 12 vascular plants, and a green alga. While it has been predicted that evolution should inevitably lead to increasing mortality and declining fertility with age after maturity, these species exhibit extraordinary variety, including increasing, constant, decreasing, humped and bowed trajectories for both long and short lived species. This diversity challenges theoreticians to develop broader perspectives on the evolution of ageing and empiricists to study the demography of more species.
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    Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Nature Publishing Group for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Nature 505 (2014): 169-173, doi:10.1038/nature12789.
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    Preprint: Jones, Owen R., Scheuerlein, Alexander, Salguero-Gomez, Roberto, Camarda, Carlo Giovanni, Schaible, Ralf, Casper, Brenda B., Dahlgren, Johan P., Ehrlen, Johan, Garcia, María B., Menges, Eric S., Quintana-Ascencio, Pedro F., Caswell, Hal, Baudisch, Annette, Vaupel, James W., "Diversity of ageing across the tree of life", 2013-10, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12789, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6426
     

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