Food, sex and death : costs of reproduction and the mechanistic basis of ageing
Ageing is the progressive decline in physiological performance with age, which is almost universal amongst multicellular organisms. While understanding ageing is an important aim in biological research, our current understanding of how and why we age is incomplete. In this thesis, I examine how sexu...
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University of Exeter
2012
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551435 |