ArticleBiology letters2017
Sperm as moderators of environmentally induced paternal effects in a livebearing fish.
Article in Biology letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Sex-dependent effects of infection on guppy reproductive fitness and offspring parasite resistance.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Testing for age-dependent effects of dietary restriction on the strength of condition dependence in ejaculate traits in the guppy (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Maternal Chronic Ethanol Exposure Decreases Stress Responses in Zebrafish Offspring.Biomolecules · 2022Article
- Parents exposed to warming produce offspring lower in weight and condition.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Personality, sperm traits and a test for their combined dependence on male condition in guppies.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Male diet affects female fitness and sperm competition in human- and bat-associated lineages of the common bedbug, Cimex lectularius.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Nongenetic paternal effects via seminal fluid.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- Review
- Integrating Ecological and Evolutionary Context in the Study of Maternal Stress.Integrative and comparative biology · 2017Article
- Sperm as moderators of environmentally induced paternal effects in a livebearing fish.Biology letters · 2017Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Until recently, paternal effects-the influence of fathers on their offspring due to environmental factors rather than genes-were largely discarded or assumed to be confined to species exhibiting paternal care. It is now recognized that paternal effects can be transmitted through the ejaculate, but unambiguous evidence for them is scarce, because it is difficult to isolate effects operating via changes to the ejaculate from maternal effects driven by female mate assessment. Here, we use artificial insemination to disentangle mate assessment from fertilization in guppies, and show that paternal effects can be transmitted to offspring exclusively via ejaculates. We show that males fed reduced diets produce poor-quality sperm and that offspring sired by such males (via artificial insemination) exhibit reduced body size at birth. These findings may have important implications for the many mating systems in which environmentally induced changes in ejaculate quality have been reported.
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