ArticleEcology letters2014
Experimental parasite infection reveals costs and benefits of paternal effects.
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- Long-term survey of sea turtles (Caretta caretta) reveals correlations between parasite infection, feeding ecology, reproductive success and population dynamics.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Between-Generation Phenotypic and Epigenetic Stability in a Clonal Snail.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Experimental Parasite Infection Causes Genome-Wide Changes in DNA Methylation.Molecular biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Nongenetic paternal effects via seminal fluid.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- Transgenerational plasticity and selection shape the adaptive potential of sticklebacks to salinity change.Evolutionary applications · 2018Article
- Recent advances in vertebrate and invertebrate transgenerational immunity in the light of ecology and evolution.Heredity · 2018Review
- Recent evolution of extreme cestode growth suppression by a vertebrate host.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Experimental evidence that parasites drive eco-evolutionary feedbacks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Grandparental immune priming in the pipefish Syngnathus typhle.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- The trans-generational impact of population density signals on host-parasite interactions.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Bacteria-type-specific biparental immune priming in the pipefishEcology and evolution · 2016Article
- Local adaptation drives thermal tolerance among parasite populations: a common garden experiment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- The contribution of post-copulatory mechanisms to incipient ecological speciation in sticklebacks.Biology letters · 2015Article
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Abstract
Forces shaping an individual's phenotype are complex and include transgenerational effects. Despite low investment into reproduction, a father's environment and phenotype can shape its offspring's phenotype. Whether and when such paternal effects are adaptive, however, remains elusive. Using three-spined sticklebacks in controlled infection experiments, we show that sperm deficiencies in exposed males compared to their unexposed brothers functionally translated into reduced reproductive success in sperm competition trials. In non-competitive fertilisations, offspring of exposed males suffered significant costs of reduced hatching success and survival but they reached a higher body condition than their counterparts from unexposed fathers after experimental infection. Interestingly, those benefits of paternal infection did not result from increased resistance but from increased tolerance to the parasite. Altogether, these results demonstrate that parasite resistance and tolerance are shaped by processes involving both genetic and non-genetic inheritance and suggest a context-dependent adaptive value of paternal effects.
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