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An Integrative View of Senescence in Nature
free accessLife‐history trade‐offs and senescence in plants
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free accessSenescence in wild insects: Key questions and challenges
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free accessThe untapped potential of reptile biodiversity for understanding how and why animals age
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free accessSex, senescence, sources and sinks
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free accessAssessing ageing patterns for comparative analyses of mortality curves: Going beyond the use of maximum longevity
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free accessThe co‐evolution of longevity and social life
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free accessTesting Finch's hypothesis: The role of organismal modularity on the escape from actuarial senescence
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free accessDietary restriction and insulin‐like signalling pathways as adaptive plasticity: A synthesis and re‐evaluation
- Functional Ecology
-  107-128
-  10.1111/1365-2435.13418
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Open accessWhy leveraging sex differences in immune trade‐offs may illuminate the evolution of senescence
- Functional Ecology
-  129-140
-  10.1111/1365-2435.13458
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free accessEco‐evolutionary perspectives of the dynamic relationships linking senescence and cancer
- Jean‐François Lemaître
- Samuel Pavard
- Mathieu Giraudeau
- Orsolya Vincze
- Geordie Jennings
- Rodrigo Hamede
- Beata Ujvari
- Frédéric Thomas
- Functional Ecology
-  141-152
-  10.1111/1365-2435.13394
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Bonus content
Read Alan Cohen’s blogpost on his contribution here: Alan Cohen – Challenging the idea that trade-offs are behind aging and lifespan
If natural selection is constantly ridding lineages of detrimental traits, why do all organisms wear down with age? Why does restricting the diet slow down the aging process? On this episode of Big Biology, Marty Martin and Art Woods talk with Jenny Regan and Dan Nussey, authors of Dietary restriction and insulin‐like signalling pathways as adaptive plasticity: A synthesis and re‐evaluation about why some organisms age at different rates and what phenotypic plasticity might have to do with this with variation.
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