. "5 Evolutionary Biology and Age-Related Mortality." Between Zeus and the Salmon: The Biodemography of Longevity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.
The following HTML text is provided to enhance online
readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML.
Please use the page image
as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.
Partridge, L., and K. Fowler 1992 Direct and correlated responses to selection on age at reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution 46:76-91.
Partridge, L., and V. French 1996 Why get big in the cold? Pp. 265-292 in Animals and Temperature, L.A. Johnston and A.B. Bennett, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Partridge, L., and P.H. Harvey 1993 Methuselah among nematodes. Nature (News and Views) 366:404-405.
Partridge, L., and R. Sibly 1991 Constraints in the evolution of life histories. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B.Biological Sciences 332:3-13.
Pettifor, R.A., C.M. Perrins, and R.H. McCleery 1988 Individual optimization of clutch size in great tits. Nature 336:160-162.
Pianka, E.R., and W.S. Parker 1975 Age-specific reproductive tactics. American Naturalist 109:453-464.
Promislow, D.E.L. 1991 Senescence in natural populations of mammals: A comparative study. Evolution 45:1869-1887.
Prowse, N., and L. Partridge 1997 The effects of reproduction on longevity and fertility in male Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of Insect Physiology 43(6):501-512.
Roff. D.A. 1992 The Evolution of Life Histories: Data and Analysis. New York: Chapman and Hall.
1984 Laboratory evolution of postponed senescence in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 38:1004-1010. 1991 Evolutionary Biology of Aging. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schaffer, W.M. 1974 Selection for optimal life histories: the effects of age structure. Ecology 5:291-303.
Scheiner, S.M. 1993 Genetics and evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24:35-68.
Steams, S.C. 1992 The evolution of life histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tatar, M., J.R. Carey, and J.W. Vaupel 1993 Long-term cost of reproduction with and without accelerated senescence in Callosobruchus maculatus: Analysis of age-specific mortality. Evolution 47:1302-1312.
Yu, C-E, J. Oshima, Y.H. Fu, E.M. Wijsman, F. Hisama, R. Alisch, S. Mathews, J. Nakura. T. Miki, S. Ouasis, G.M. Martin, J. Mulligan, and G.D. Schellenberg 1996 Positional cloning of the Werner's Syndrome gene. Science 272:258-262.
Williams, G.C. 1957 Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence. Evolution 11:398-411.
1966 Natural selection, the cost of reproduction and a refinement of Lack's principle. American Naturalist 100:687-690.
Zwaan, B., R. Bijlsma, and R.F. Hoekstra 1991 On the developmental theory of aging. 1. Starvation resistance and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster in relation to pre-adult breeding conditions. Heredity 66:29-39.
Zwaan, B., R. Bijlsma, and R.F. Hoekstra 1995 Direct selection on life span in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution 49:649-659.