ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2019
Testing the effect of early-life reproductive effort on age-related decline in a wild insect.
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- The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Level-dependent effects of predation stress on prey development, lifespan and reproduction in mites.Biogerontology · 2022Article
- The Biology of Aging in Insects: FromAnnual review of entomology · 2022Review
- Oxygen Dependence of Flight Performance in AgeingBiology · 2021Article
- Understanding Reproductive Aging in Wildlife to Improve Animal Conservation and Human Reproductive Health.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Development time mediates the effect of larval diet on ageing and mating success of male antler flies in the wild.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Experimentally increased brood size accelerates actuarial senescence and increases subsequent reproductive effort in a wild bird population.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- Effects of Non-Lethal High-Temperature Stress onInsects · 2020Article
- Sex-specific patterns of senescence in artificial insect populations varying in sex-ratio to manipulate reproductive effort.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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The disposable soma theory of ageing predicts that when organisms invest in reproduction they do so by reducing their investment in body maintenance, inducing a trade-off between reproduction and survival. Experiments on invertebrates in the lab provide support for the theory by demonstrating the predicted responses to manipulation of reproductive effort or lifespan. However, experimental studies in birds and evidence from observational (nonmanipulative) studies in nature do not consistently reveal trade-offs. Most species studied previously in the wild are mammals and birds that reproduce over multiple discrete seasons. This contrasts with temperate invertebrates, which typically have annual generations and reproduce over a single season. We expand the taxonomic range of senescence study systems to include life histories typical of most temperate invertebrates. We monitored reproductive effort, ageing, and survival in a natural field cricket population over ten years to test the prediction that individuals investing more in early-reproduction senesce faster and die younger. We found no evidence of a trade-off between early-life reproductive effort and survival, and only weak evidence for a trade-off with phenotypic senescence. We discuss the possibility that organisms with multiple discrete breeding seasons may have greater opportunities to express trade-offs between reproduction and senescence.
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