%0 Journal Article %T Somatic growth, aging, and longevity %A Andrzej Bartke %J Archive of "NPJ Aging and Mechanisms of Disease". %D 2017 %R 10.1038/s41514-017-0014-y %X Negative association of adult body size and longevity may result from impact of the underlying metabolic process on both somatic growth and aging (top panel) or, presumably less likely, from the negative effects of growth and adult body size on the rate of aging and longevity (bottom panel %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622030/