ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Evidence that fertility trades off with early offspring fitness as males age.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Analysis of oxygen consumption rates in zebrafish reveals differences based on sex, age and physical activity recovery.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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- A synthesis of senescence predictions for indeterminate growth, and support from multiple tests in wild lake trout.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Male sperm storage impairs sperm quality in the zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Male age alone predicts paternity success under sperm competition when effects of age and past mating effort are experimentally separated.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Effect of age on the mercury sensitivity of zebrafish (Danio rerio) sperm.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2021Article
- GH Overexpression Alters Spermatic Cells MicroRNAome Profile in Transgenic Zebrafish.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Loss of the glucocorticoid receptor causes accelerated ovarian ageing in zebrafish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- An experimental test of the role of male mating history on paternal effects in the livebearer fishBiology letters · 2020Article
- Paternal exposure to a common herbicide alters the behavior and serotonergic system of zebrafish offspring.PloS one · 2020Article
- Post-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senescing males.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual selection and ageing: interplay between pre- and post-copulatory traits senescence in the guppy.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Models of ageing predict that sperm function and fertility should decline with age as sperm are exposed to free radical damage and mutation accumulation. However, theory also suggests that mating with older males should be beneficial for females because survival to old age is a demonstration of a male's high genetic and/or phenotypic quality. Consequently, declines in sperm fitness may be offset by indirect fitness benefits exhibited in offspring. While numerous studies have investigated age-based declines in male fertility, none has taken the integrated approach of studying age-based effects on both male fertility and offspring fitness. Here, using a cohort-based longitudinal study of zebrafish (
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