Response to comment on 'Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age'

  1. J Graham Ruby
  2. Megan Smith
  3. Rochelle Buffenstein  Is a corresponding author
  1. Calico Life Sciences, LLC, United States
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Exclusion of all pre-2008 lifespan data through left-censorship did not modify the observed lifespan demographics of H. glaber.

(A) Kaplan–Meier survival curve for naked mole-rats after reaching reproductive maturity (Tsex; 6 months from birth; 183 days; red). Green: original calculation (Figure 1 of Ruby et al., 2018). …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47047.002

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