Patterns of Age-specific Means and Genet
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BRIAN CHARLESWORTH
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A general quantitative genetic model of mutations with age-speci"c deleterious e!ects is developed. It is shown that, for the simplest case of a species with age-independent reproductive rates and extrinsic adult mortality rates, and no pleiotropic e!ects of age-speci"c mutations, exponential increa