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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 24, 期 7, 页码 744-747出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.012
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- French Laboratory of Excellence [ANR-10-LABX-41, ANR-10-LABX-25-01, ANR-11-IDEX-0002-02]
- NERC (UK)
- National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
The evolution of senescence (the physiological decline of organisms with age) poses an apparent paradox because it represents a failure of natural selection to increase the survival and reproductive performance of organisms. The paradox can be resolved if natural selection becomes less effective with age, because the death of postreproductive individuals should have diminished effects on Darwinian fitness [1, 2]. A substantial body of empirical work is consistent with this prediction for animals, which transmit their genes to progeny via an immortal germline. However, such evidence is still lacking in plants, which lack a germline and whose reproduction is diffuse and modular across the soma. Here, we provide experimental evidence for a genetic basis of senescence in the short-lived perennial plant Silene latifolia. Our pedigree-based analysis revealed a marked increase with age in the additive genetic variance of traits closely associated with fitness. This result thus extends to plants the quantitative genetic support for the evolutionary theory of senescence.
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