The Mass-Longevity Triangle: Pareto Optimality and the Geometry of Life-History Trait Space.

When organisms need to perform multiple tasks they face a fundamental tradeoff: no phenotype can be optimal at all tasks. This situation was recently analyzed using Pareto optimality, showing that tradeoffs between tasks lead to phenotypes distributed on low dimensional polygons in trait space. The...

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Main Authors: Pablo Szekely, Yael Korem, Uri Moran, Avi Mayo, Uri Alon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4605829?pdf=render