An Unusual Antagonistic Pleiotropy in the Penna Model for Biological Ageing

Details An Unusual Antagonistic Pleiotropy in the Penna Model for Biological Ageing An Unusual Antagonistic Pleiotropy in the Penna Model for Biological Ageing

2001-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102378v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physica A

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00126-1

We combine the Penna Model for biological aging, which is based on the mutation-accumulation theory, with a sort of antagonistic pleiotropy. We show that depending on how the pleiotropy is introduced, it is possible to reproduce both the humans mortality, which increases exponentially with age, and fruitfly mortality, which decelerates at old ages, allowing the appearance of arbitrarily old Methuselah's.

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