TY - BOOK AU - Shefferson,Richard P. AU - Jones,Owen R. AU - Salguero-Gómez,Roberto TI - The evolution of senescence in the tree of life SN - 9781108139809 AV - QP85 .E96 2017eb U1 - 612.6/8 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Animals KW - Longevity KW - Plants KW - Aging KW - Animaux KW - Longévité KW - Plantes KW - Vieillissement KW - MEDICAL KW - Physiology KW - bisacsh KW - SCIENCE KW - Life Sciences KW - Human Anatomy & Physiology KW - fast KW - Australian KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - Top researchers in the field introduce interdisciplinary perspectives on senescence, presenting new insights and cutting-edge research UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1450834 ER -