PERSPECTIVE: Infection and inflammation in somatic maintenance, growth and longevity
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Infection and inflammation in somatic maintenance, growth and longevity
All organisms must display a certain degree of environmental adaptability to survive and reproduce. Growth and reproduction are metabolically expensive and carry other costs that contribute to aging. Therefore, animals have developed physiologic strategies to assess the harshness of the environment before devoting resources to reproduction. Presumably, these strategies maximize the possibility ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Applications
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1752-4571
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00062.x