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| Title |
The role of menopause and reproductive senescence in a long-lived social mammal
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, February 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-6-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Eric J Ward, Kim Parsons, Elizabeth E Holmes, Ken C Balcomb, John KB Ford |
| Abstract |
Menopause is a seemingly maladaptive life-history trait that is found in many long-lived mammals. There are two competing evolutionary hypotheses for this phenomenon; in the adaptive view of menopause, the cessation of reproduction may increase the fitness of older females; in the non-adaptive view, menopause may be explained by physiological deterioration with age. The decline and eventual cessation of reproduction has been documented in a number of mammalian species, however the evolutionary cause of this trait is unknown. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 231 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 216 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 45 | 19% |
| Researcher | 41 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 32 | 14% |
| Other | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 29 | 13% |
| Unknown | 43 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 109 | 47% |
| Environmental Science | 23 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 5% |
| Psychology | 9 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 7% |
| Unknown | 52 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2024.
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#2,212,628
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#134
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#9,876
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#4
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