The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life
The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life
Editors:
Richard P. Shefferson, University of Tokyo
Owen R. Jones, University of Southern Denmark
Roberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Sheffield
Owen R. Jones, University of Southern Denmark
Roberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Sheffield
Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Michael R. Rose, Lee F. Greer, Kevin H. Phung, Grant A. Rutledge, Mark A. Phillips, Christian N. K. Anderson, Laurence D. Mueller, Hal Caswell, Esther Shyu, Alan A. Cohen, Oskar Burger, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael Garratt, Jean-François Lemaître, Sandra Bouwhuis, Oscar Vedder, Andre Furness, David Reznick, Eric Lucas, Laurent Keller, Baruch Rinkevich, Ralf Schaible, Felix Ringelhan, Boris H. Kramer, Alexander Scheuerlein, Maurizio Mencuccini, Sergi Munné-Bosch, Liana T. Burghardt, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Johan P. Dahlgren, Deborah A. Roach, Jennifer Gremer, Satu Ramula, Bård Pedersen, Elizabeth Crone, Peter Lesica, Anne Jäkäläniemi, Juha Tuomi, Marc F. P. M. Maas, Alfons J. M. Debets, Bas J. Zwaan, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Tomasz Bilinski, Renata Zadrag-Tecza, Charles C. Cowden
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The existing theories on the evolution of senescence assume that senescence is inevitable in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding of senescence and its underlying mechanisms could have far-reaching consequences for conservation and eco-evolutionary research. This book is the first to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of senescence in many species, setting the stage for further developments. It brings together new insights from a wide range of scientific fields and cutting-edge research done on a multitude of different animals (including humans), plants and microbes, giving the reader a complete overview of recent developments and of the controversies currently surrounding the topic. Written by specialists from a variety of disciplines, this book is a valuable source of information for students and researchers interested in ageing and life history traits and populations.
- A complete volume showing different perspectives on the evolution of senescence and promoting inter-disciplinary understanding and communication
- Brings together differing views on the evolution of senescence from biologists across the discipline, ensuring that readers gain a broad view of the topic and its controversies
- Combines research from various scientific fields on many different species, giving readers the opportunity to see the current limits of our knowledge on the subject and what the next steps could possibly be
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March 2017Hardback
9781107078505
441 pages
258 × 179 × 27 mm
1kg
51 b/w illus. 16 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: wilting leaves and rotting branches: reconciling evolutionary perspectives on senescence Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones and Roberto Salguero-Gómez
- Part I. Theory of Senescence:
- 2. The disposable soma theory - origins and evolution Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
- 3. A Hamiltonian demography of life history Michael R. Rose, Lee F. Greer, Kevin H. Phung, Grant A. Rutledge, Mark A. Phillips, Christian N. K. Anderson and Laurence D. Mueller
- 4. Senescence, selection gradients, and mortality Hal Caswell and Esther Shyu
- 5. Taxonomic diversity, complexity, and the evolution of senescence Alan A. Cohen
- Part II. Senescence in Animals:
- 6. Evolutionary demography of the human mortality profile Oskar Burger
- 7. Senescence in mammalian life history traits Jean-Michel Gaillard, Michael Garratt and Jean-François Lemaître
- 8. Avian escape artists? Patterns, processes and costs of senescence in wild birds Sandra Bouwhuis and Oscar Vedder
- 9. The evolution of senescence in nature Andre Furness and David Reznick
- 10. Explaining extraordinary lifespans: the proximate and ultimate causes of differential lifespan in social insects Eric Lucas and Laurent Keller
- 11. Senescence in modular animals - botryllid ascidians as a unique ageing system Baruch Rinkevich
- 12. Hydra: evolutionary and biological mechanisms for non-senescence Ralf Schaible, Felix Ringelhan, Boris H. Kramer and Alexander Scheuerlein
- Part III. Senescence in Plants:
- 13. Physiological and biochemical processes related to ageing and senescence in plants Maurizio Mencuccini and Sergi Munné-Bosch
- 14. The evolution of senescence in annual plants: the importance of phenology and the potential for plasticity Liana T. Burghardt and C. Jessica E. Metcalf
- 15. Demographic senescence in herbaceous plants Johan P. Dahlgren and Deborah A. Roach
- 16. Complex life histories and senescence in plants: avenues to escape age-related decline? Jennifer Gremer, Satu Ramula, Bård Pedersen, Elizabeth Crone, Peter Lesica, Anne Jäkäläniemi and Juha Tuomi
- Part IV. Senescence in Microbes:
- 17. Why some fungi senescence and others don't: an evolutionary perspective on fungal senescence Marc F. P. M. Maas, Alfons J. M. Debets, Bas J. Zwaan and Anne D. van Diepeningen
- 18. Yeast ageing: reproduction strategies determine the longevity of budding and fission yeasts Tomasz Bilinski and Renata Zadrag-Tecza
- 19. Organismal senescence in plant-fungal symbioses Richard P. Shefferson and Charles C. Cowden
- Part V. Senescence across the Tree of Life:
- 20. Life history trade-offs modulate the speed of senescence Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Owen R. Jones.
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Senescence in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is dependent on the presence of plasmids causing mitochondrial ageing. On the top row serial subcultures of a plasmid containing senescent isolate that stopped growing after several subculturing steps
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Lasius niger is a common European ant also found in North America and some other parts of the world. It has attracted a great deal of interest from biologists interested in senescence, because queens of the species can live approximately 20 years. (Courte
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Aspergillus niger is a non-senescent fungus that without external causes can grow eternally. On the picture a heterokaryon, a somatic fusion between different colour and auxotrophic mutants making it possible to do genetics studies in this fungus. (Courte
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This is a portrait of the longest lived fish from a cohort of 240 included in a comparative study of senescence in natural populations of guppies. The study included equal representation of fish from natural streams where they live either with or without
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Senescence in the ageing fungus Podospora anserina is measured as time period or distance its mycelium can grow. On the photograph so-called 'racetubes' with unlimiting nutrient rich medium inoculated with different wild-type strains showing the genetic d
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One fertilised egg and a fresh hatched miniature Hydra of the species Hydra vulgaris (AEP) from the laboratory of Rostock (Germany) (right side). (Photo credit: R. Schaible and M. Sussman)
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Fruiting bodies of Podospora anserina the filamentous fungal model organism for senescence. P. anserinais an obligate sexual organism and even on ageing mycelium produced spores are 'rejuvenated'. (Courtesy: Anne van Diepeningen)
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An individual of Hydra sp. with both an egg and testis collected in a pond nearby Rostock (Germany) (middle) (Photo credit: R. Schaible and M. Sussman)
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Lichens have rarely been studied demographically, but the few studies of these organisms show unique patterns suggestive of escape from senescence. (Courtesy: Owen R. Jones)
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Individual of Hydra magnipapillata strain 105 with a bud from the laboratory of Rostock (Germany). (Photo credit: R. Schaible and M. Sussman)
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Cypripedium macranthum var. rebunense is a subspecies of temperate lady’s slipper orchid that grows exclusively on the island of Rebun, at the far northern end of the Japanese archipelago. Like most species in the genus, it is long-lived and capable of
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A colony of the urochordate Botryllus schlosseri which is composed of two star-shaped clusters of modular units (called zooids, each ~2 mm in length). The short lived zooids (11 and 12 brown/reddish zooids in the left and right clusters, respectively) sho
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