| 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 / Andrew I. Furness and David N. Reznick ; 10. Explaining extraordinary life spans : the proximate and ultimate causes of differential life span 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. |
