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Biology of aging

the hypothesis that mitochondria with defective respiration are degraded more slowly, so mutant mitochondria expand clonally inside aging cells.

In biology of aging, survival of the slowest refers to the hypothesis that mitochondria with defective respiration are degraded more slowly, so mutant mitochondria expand clonally inside aging cells. This meaning comes from De Grey (1997) in BioEssays.[1]

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References

De Grey, A. D. N. J. (1997). A proposed refinement of the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging. BioEssays, 19(2), 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.950190211

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