title: Vertebrate ageing: an evolutionary process with a genetic basis?
abstract: Theories that explain the persistence of ageing in the face of natural selection implicitly assume that there is a genetic basis for ageing. This has now for the first time been shown to be the case in two free-living populations of mammals.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive (UMR 5558); CNRS; Univ. Lyon 1, 43 bd 11 nov, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France. gaillard@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gaillard
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonenfant
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*