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| Title |
Diversity of ageing across the tree of life
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| Published in |
Nature, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1038/nature12789 |
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| Authors |
Owen R. Jones, Alexander Scheuerlein, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Ralf Schaible, Brenda B. Casper, Johan P. Dahlgren, Johan Ehrlén, María B. García, Eric S. Menges, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Hal Caswell, Annette Baudisch, James W. Vaupel |
| Abstract |
Evolution drives, and is driven by, demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype's age patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns in turn determine the genotype's fitness in that environment. Hence, to understand the evolution of ageing, age patterns of mortality and reproduction need to be compared for species across the tree of life. However, few studies have done so and only for a limited range of taxa. Here we contrast standardized patterns over age for 11 mammals, 12 other vertebrates, 10 invertebrates, 12 vascular plants and a green alga. Although it has been predicted that evolution should inevitably lead to increasing mortality and declining fertility with age after maturity, there is great variation among these species, including increasing, constant, decreasing, humped and bowed trajectories for both long- and short-lived species. This diversity challenges theoreticians to develop broader perspectives on the evolution of ageing and empiricists to study the demography of more species. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 153 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 28 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 8% |
| Canada | 6 | 4% |
| Spain | 6 | 4% |
| Germany | 5 | 3% |
| Japan | 4 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 3% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| France | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 24 | 16% |
| Unknown | 56 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 99 | 65% |
| Scientists | 46 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,247 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 1% |
| Germany | 6 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | <1% |
| Spain | 6 | <1% |
| France | 5 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 3 | <1% |
| Japan | 3 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 21 | 2% |
| Unknown | 1175 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 289 | 23% |
| Researcher | 263 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 138 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 135 | 11% |
| Professor | 65 | 5% |
| Other | 198 | 16% |
| Unknown | 159 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 588 | 47% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 186 | 15% |
| Environmental Science | 77 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 43 | 3% |
| Neuroscience | 23 | 2% |
| Other | 129 | 10% |
| Unknown | 201 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 806. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2024.
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