An evolutionary theory of clonal senescence

DOI10.1006/TPBI.1995.1013MaRDI QIDQ1897487zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bård Pedersen

Publication date 29 August 1996

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.1995.1013

zbMATH Keywords

natural selectionlife historyclonal level fitnessevolutionary theory of senescence of clonesramets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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