Evolution and ecology of ageing in a long-lived mammal.
Informations
- Funding country
United Kingdom
- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 4/1/2005
- End date
- 1/31/2009
- Budget
- 400,812 EUR
Fundings
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Standard Grant | Grant | - | - | - |
Organisations
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University of Cambridge | Lead Partner | - | - |
Abstract
A knowledge of the rate at which animals age and the factors affecting the rate of ageing is of fundamental importance to our understanding both of the evolution of life-histories (Stearns 1992) and of population dynamics (Newton 1998; Gaillard et al. 200