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Part II - Senescence in Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

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Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Richard P. Shefferson
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University of Tokyo
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University of Southern Denmark
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University of Sheffield
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The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life , pp. 103 - 254
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