Correlated evolution of senescence and ephemeral substrate use in the Sordariomycetes

• Published in: Molecular ecology Vol. 21; no. 11; pp. 2816 - 2828
• Main Authors: GEYDAN, THOMAS D., DEBETS, ALFONS J. M., VERKLEY, GERARD J. M., Van DIEPENINGEN, ANNE D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012
• Subjects: ageing; Aging; Aging - physiology; Animals; Ascomycota; Ascomycota - physiology; Biological Evolution; colony sectorization; correlated evolution; Culture collections; death; dna; ecology; evolution; Evolutionary biology; Feces; Feces - microbiology; filamentous fungi; Fungi; genes; Life span; longevity; maintenance and repair; metarhizium-anisopliae; microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogenetics; phylogenies; Phylogeny; physiology; plasmids; Podospora; Podospora - physiology; Podospora anserina; populations; Rabbits; reproduction; Substrates

Evolutionary theory predicts that senescence—a decline in reproduction and survival with increasing age—can evolve as a trade‐off between investment in reproduction on one side and in somatic maintenance and repair on the other. The ecology of a species is crucial because it provides the external ca...