ArticlePloS one2012
Fertilization is not a new beginning: the relationship between sperm longevity and offspring performance.
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- Selection for longer lived sperm within ejaculate reduces reproductive ageing in offspring.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- Haploid selection within a single ejaculate increases offspring fitness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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- Increased temperature, but not acidification, enhances fertilization and development in a tropical urchin: potential for adaptation to a tropicalized eastern Australia.Evolutionary applications · 2014Article
- Experimental parasite infection reveals costs and benefits of paternal effects.Ecology letters · 2014Article
- Sperm variation within a single ejaculate affects offspring development in Atlantic salmon.Biology letters · 2014Article
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Abstract
Sperm are the most diverse cell type known: varying not only among- and within- species, but also among- and within-ejaculates of a single male. Recently, the causes and consequences of variability in sperm phenotypes have received much attention, but the importance of within-ejaculate variability remains largely unknown. Correlative evidence suggests that reduced within-ejaculate variation in sperm phenotype increases a male's fertilization success in competitive conditions; but the transgenerational consequences of within-ejaculate variation in sperm phenotype remain relatively unexplored. Here we examine the relationship between sperm longevity and offspring performance in a marine invertebrate with external fertilization, Styela plicata. Offspring sired by longer-lived sperm had higher performance compared to offspring sired by freshly-extracted sperm of the same ejaculate, both in the laboratory and the field. This indicates that within-ejaculate differences in sperm longevity can influence offspring fitness - a source of variability in offspring phenotypes that has not previously been considered. Links between sperm phenotype and offspring performance may constrain responses to selection on either sperm or offspring traits, with broad ecological and evolutionary implications.
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