ArticleEcology letters2014
Revisiting telegony: offspring inherit an acquired characteristic of their mother's previous mate.
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- Indirect parental effects on offspring viability by egg-derived fluids in an external fertilizer.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Can paternal effects via seminal fluid contribute to the evolution of polyandry?Biology letters · 2020Article
- Nongenetic paternal effects via seminal fluid.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- Evolutionary consequences of epigenetic inheritance.Heredity · 2018Article
- The sperm factor: paternal impact beyond genes.Heredity · 2018Review
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- Superior stimulation of female fecundity by subordinate males provides a mechanism for telegony.Evolution letters · 2018Article
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- The placental gateway of maternal transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.Journal of genetics · 2017Review
- Double Stranded RNA in Human Seminal Plasma.Frontiers in genetics · 2017Article
- Epigenetic inheritance of acquired traits through sperm RNAs and sperm RNA modifications.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2016Review
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Abstract
Newly discovered non-genetic mechanisms break the link between genes and inheritance, thereby also raising the possibility that previous mating partners could influence traits in offspring sired by subsequent males that mate with the same female ('telegony'). In the fly Telostylinus angusticollis, males transmit their environmentally acquired condition via paternal effects on offspring body size. We manipulated male condition, and mated females to two males in high or low condition in a fully crossed design. Although the second male sired a large majority of offspring, offspring body size was influenced by the condition of the first male. This effect was not observed when females were exposed to the first male without mating, implicating semen-mediated effects rather than female differential allocation based on pre-mating assessment of male quality. Our results reveal a novel type of transgenerational effect with potential implications for the evolution of reproductive strategies.
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