Screen LibraryThe evolution of senescence in the tree of life /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 428 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107078505 (hardback) : 1107078504 (hardback) 9781107435582 1107435587 |
| Index Number: | QP85 |
| CLC: |
Q945.48 Q419 |
| Call Number: | Q419/E939 |
| Contents: | Introduction : wilting leaves and rotting branches--reconciling evolutionary perspectives on senescence / Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones and Roberto Salguero-Gómez -- Part I. Theory of senescence. The disposable soma theory : origins and evolution / Thomas B.L. Kirkwood -- A Hamiltonian demography of life history / Michael R. Rose, Lee F. Greer, Kevin H. Phung, Grant A. Rutledge, Mark A. Phillips, Christian N.K. Anderson and Laurence D. Mueller -- Senescence, selection gradients and mortality / Hal Caswell and Esther Shyu -- Taxonomic diversity, complexity and the evolution of senescence / Alan A. Cohen -- Part II. Senescence in animals. Evolutionary demography of the human mortality profile / Oskar Burger -- Senescence in mammalian life history traits / Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael Garratt and Jean-François Lemaître -- Avian escape artists? : patterns, processes and costs of senescence in wild birds / Sandra Bouwhuis and Oscar Vedder -- The evolution of senescence in nature / Andrew I. Furness and David N. Reznick -- Explaining extraordinary life spans : the proximate and ultimate causes of differential life span in social insects / Eric Lucas and Laurent Keller -- Senescence in modular animals : botryllid ascidians as a unique ageing system / Baruch Rinkevich -- Hydra : evolutionary and biological mechanisms for non-senescence / Ralf Schaible, Felix Ringelhan, Boris H. Kramer and Alexander Scheuerlein -- Part III. Senescence in plants. Physiological and biochemical processes related to ageing and senescence in plants / Maurizio Mencuccini and Sergi Munné-Bosch -- The evolution of senescence in annual plants : the importance of phenology and the potential for plasticity / Liana T. Burghardt and C. Jessica E. Metcalf -- Demographic senescence in herbaceous plants / Johan P. Dahlgren and Deborah A. Roach -- Complex life histories and senescence in plants : avenues to escape age-related decline? / Jennifer Gremer, Satu Ramula, Bård Pedersen, Elizabeth Crone, Peter Lesica, Anne Jäkäläniemi and Juha Tuomi -- Part IV. Senescence in microbes. Why some fungi senescence and others do not : an evolutionary perspective on fungal senescence / Marc F.P.M. Maas, Alfons J.M. Debets, Bas J. Zwaan and Anne D. van Diepeningen -- Yeast ageing : reproduction strategies determine the longevity of budding and fission yeasts / Tomasz Bilinski and Renata Zadrag-Tecza -- Organismal senescence in plant--fungal symbioses / Richard P. Shefferson and Charles C. Cowden -- Part V. Senescence across the tree of life. Life history trade-offs modulate the speed of senescence / Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Owen R. Jones. |