Do all organisms senesce? Challenging traditional theories on the evolution of senescence, this book introduces an interdisciplinary perspective, giving a broad overview of new insights and cutting-edge research from many scientific fields. It will be of interest to students and biologists interested in ageing research, life history traits and populations.
Do all organisms senesce? Challenging traditional theories on the evolution of senescence, this book introduces an interdisciplinary perspective, giving a broad overview of new insights and cutting-edge research from many scientific fields. It will be of interest to students and biologists interested in ageing research, life history traits and populations.
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.
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.
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