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ArticleBiology letters2017

Paternal diet affects differential gene expression, but not sperm competition, in sons.

Felix Zajitschek, Susanne Zajitschek, Mollie Manier

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Article in Biology letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Felix ZajitschekDepartment of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6010-6112
Susanne ZajitschekDepartment of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4676-9950
Mollie ManierDepartment of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA manier@gwu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9114-8649
George Washington University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parental environment can widely influence offspring phenotype, but paternal effects in the absence of parental care remain poorly understood. We asked if protein content in the larval diet of fathers affected paternity success and gene expression in their sons. We found that males reared on high-protein diet had sons that fared better during sperm competition, suggesting that postcopulatory sexual selection is subject to transgenerational paternal effects. Moreover, immune response genes were downregulated in sons of low-protein fathers, while genes involved in metabolic and reproductive processes were upregulated.

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Dietary ProteinsAnimal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterFemaleLarvaMaleSequence Analysis, RNASpermatozoaDietary Proteinsgene expressionparental effectspostcopulatory sexual selectionRNAseqtranscriptomicstransgenerational effects

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PMID28202685
PMCPMC5326516
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