The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: wilting leaves and rotting branches: reconciling evolutionary perspectives on senescence Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones and Roberto Salguero-Gomez; 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-Francois Lemaitre; 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 Munne-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, Bard Pedersen, Elizabeth Crone, Peter Lesica, Anne Jakalaniemi 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-Gomez and Owen R. Jones.