ArticleNature communications2015
The sperm of aging male bustards retards their offspring's development.
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- The diversity of maternal-age effects upon pre-adult survival across animal species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- The deteriorating soma and the indispensable germline: gamete senescence and offspring fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Male age and its association with reproductive traits in captive and wild house sparrows.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Post-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senescing males.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Nonfertilizing sperm in Lepidoptera show little evidence for recurrent positive selection.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
- Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Evidence that fertility trades off with early offspring fitness as males age.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Offspring telomere length in the long lived Alpine swift is negatively related to the age of their biological father and foster mother.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Interactive effects of parental age on offspring fitness and age-assortative mating in a wild bird.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2017Article
- Aging parasites produce offspring with poor fitness prospects.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Post-copulatory opportunities for sperm competition and cryptic female choice provide no offspring fitness benefits in externally fertilizing salmon.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
- Telomere dynamics may link stress exposure and ageing across generations.Biology letters · 2015Review
- An ontogenetic perspective on individual differences.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Review
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Abstract
Understanding whether the sperm of older males has a diminished capacity to produce successful offspring is a key challenge in evolutionary biology. We investigate this issue using 10 years of reproductive data on captive long-lived houbara bustards (Chlamydotis undulata), where the use of artificial insemination techniques means parents can only influence offspring quality via their gametes. Here we show that paternal aging reduces both the likelihood that eggs hatch and the rate at which chicks grow, with older males producing the lightest offspring after the first month. Surprisingly, this cost of paternal aging on offspring development is of a similar scale to that associated with maternal aging. Fitting with predictions on germline aging, the sperm of immature males produce the fastest growing offspring. Our findings thus indicate that any good genes benefit that might be offered by older 'proven' males will be eroded by aging of their germline DNA.
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