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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 376, 期 1823, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0730
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adaptive death; ageing; altruism; Caenorhabditis elegans; kin selection; salmon
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- Wellcome Trust [098565/Z/12/Z, 215574/Z/19/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [215574/Z/19/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Research suggests that in certain populations, such as clonal, viscous ones, programmed organismal death may promote fitness through social benefits. Adaptive death may also exist in certain semelparous fish, and in these cases, the death is more often caused by kin selection rather than self-destructive mechanisms.
Standard evolutionary theory, supported by mathematical modelling of outbred, dispersed populations predicts that ageing is not an adaptation. We recently argued that in clonal, viscous populations, programmed organismal death could promote fitness through social benefits and has, in some organisms (e.g. Caenorhabditis elegans), evolved to shorten lifespan. Here, we review previous adaptive death theory, including consumer sacrifice, biomass sacrifice and defensive sacrifice types of altruistic adaptive death. In addition, we discuss possible adaptive death in certain semelparous fish, coevolution of reproductive and adaptive death, and adaptive reproductive senescence in C. elegans. We also describe findings from recent tests for the existence of adaptive death in C. elegans using computer modelling. Such models have provided new insights into how trade-offs between fitness at the individual and colony levels mean that senescent changes can be selected traits. Exploring further the relationship between adaptive death and social interactions, we consider examples where adaptive death results more from action of kin than from self-destructive mechanisms and, to describe this, introduce the term adaptive killing of kin. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?'
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