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SUBMITTER: Lemaitre JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4426628 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lemaître Jean-François JF Berger Vérane V Bonenfant Christophe C Douhard Mathieu M Gamelon Marlène M Plard Floriane F Gaillard Jean-Michel JM
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150501 1806
Empirical evidence for declines in fitness components (survival and reproductive performance) with age has recently accumulated in wild populations, highlighting that the process of senescence is nearly ubiquitous in the living world. Senescence patterns are highly variable among species and current evolutionary theories of ageing propose that such variation can be accounted for by differences in allocation to growth and reproduction during early life. Here, we compiled 26 studies of free-rangin ...[more]