Response to comment on 'Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age'
For most adult mammals, the risk of death increases exponentially with age, an observation originally described for humans by Benjamin Gompertz. We recently performed a Kaplan–Meier survival analysis of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) and concluded that their risk of death remains constant a...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2019-07-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/47047 |