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BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 339-342Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0009
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life history; quantitative genetics; genetic correlation; maturation; senescence; primate
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Trade-offs are central to life-history theory but difficult to document. Patterns of phenotypic and genetic correlations in rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta-a long-lived, slow-reproducing primate-are used to test for a trade-off between female age of first reproduction and adult survival. A strong positive genetic correlation indicates that female macaques suffer reduced adult survival when they mature relatively early and implies primate senescence can be explained, in part, by antagonistic pleiotropy. Contrasts with a similar human study implicate the extension of parental effects to later ages as a potential mechanism for circumventing female life-history trade-offs in human evolution.
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