Vertebrate ageing: an evolutionary process with a genetic basis?
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.
Gaillard
Jean-Michel
JM
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.
Bonenfant
Christophe
C
D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*