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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Main Author: Archer, Catharine Ruth
Other Authors: Hunt, John : Royle, Nick
Published: University of Exeter 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551435