Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Shefferson, Richard P.

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Produktbeschreibung

The existing theories on the evolution of senescence assume that senescence is inevitable in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding of senescence and its underlying mechanisms could have far-reaching consequences for conservation and eco-evolutionary research. This book is the first to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of senescence in many species, setting the stage for further developments. It brings together new insights from a wide range of scientific fields and cutting-edge research done on a multitude of different animals (including humans), plants and microbes, giving the reader a complete overview of recent developments and of the controversies currently surrounding the topic. Written by specialists from a variety of disciplines, this book is a valuable source of information for students and researchers interested in ageing and life history traits and populations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108138239
• Artikelnr.: 49047230

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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: 2. The
disposable soma theory - origins and evolution Thomas B. L. Kirkwood; 3. 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; 4. Senescence, selection gradients, and mortality Hal
Caswell and Esther Shyu; 5. Taxonomic diversity, complexity, and the
evolution of senescence Alan A. Cohen; Part II. Senescence in Animals: 6.
Evolutionary demography of the human mortality profile Oskar Burger; 7.
Senescence in mammalian life history traits Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael
Garratt and Jean-François Lemaître; 8. Avian escape artists? Patterns,
processes and costs of senescence in wild birds Sandra Bouwhuis and Oscar
Vedder; 9. The evolution of senescence in nature Andre Furness and David
Reznick; 10. Explaining extraordinary lifespans: the proximate and ultimate
causes of differential lifespan in social insects Eric Lucas and Laurent
Keller; 11. Senescence in modular animals - botryllid ascidians as a unique
ageing system Baruch Rinkevich; 12. Hydra: evolutionary and biological
mechanisms for non-senescence Ralf Schaible, Felix Ringelhan, Boris H.
Kramer and Alexander Scheuerlein; Part III. Senescence in Plants: 13.
Physiological and biochemical processes related to ageing and senescence in
plants Maurizio Mencuccini and Sergi Munné-Bosch; 14. The evolution of
senescence in annual plants: the importance of phenology and the potential
for plasticity Liana T. Burghardt and C. Jessica E. Metcalf; 15.
Demographic senescence in herbaceous plants Johan P. Dahlgren and Deborah
A. Roach; 16. 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: 17. Why some fungi senescence and others don't: an
evolutionary perspective on fungal senescence Marc F. P. M. Maas, Alfons J.
M. Debets, Bas J. Zwaan and Anne D. van Diepeningen; 18. Yeast ageing:
reproduction strategies determine the longevity of budding and fission
yeasts Tomasz Bilinski and Renata Zadrag-Tecza; 19. Organismal senescence
in plant-fungal symbioses Richard P. Shefferson and Charles C. Cowden; Part
V. Senescence across the Tree of Life: 20. Life history trade-offs modulate
the speed of senescence Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Owen R. Jones.