ArticleEcology and evolution2019
Female reproduction bears no survival cost in captivity for gray mouse lemurs.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Aging dynamics in captive sea turtles reflect conserved life-history patterns across the testudine phylogeny.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade-offs.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Reproduction has immediate effects on female mortality, but no discernible lasting physiological impacts: A test of the disposable soma theory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Parental age at conception on mouse lemur's offspring longevity: Sex-specific maternal effects.PloS one · 2022Article
- Quantifying the costs of pre- and postcopulatory traits for males: Evidence that costs of ejaculation are minor relative to mating effort.Evolution letters · 2021Article
- Sex-Specific Response to Caloric Restriction After Reproductive Investment inFrontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Female reproduction bears no survival cost in captivity for gray mouse lemurs.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
The survival cost of reproduction has been revealed in many free-ranging vertebrates. However, recent studies on captive populations failed to detect this cost. Theoretically, this lack of survival/reproduction trade-off is expected when resources are not limiting, but these studies may have failed to detect the cost, as they may not have fully accounted for potential confounding effects, in particular interindividual heterogeneity. Here, we investigated the effects of current and past reproductive effort on later survival in captive females of a small primate, the gray mouse lemur. Survival analyses showed no cost of reproduction in females; and the pattern was even in the opposite direction: the higher the reproductive effort, the higher the chances of survival until the next reproductive event. These conclusions hold even while accounting for interindividual heterogeneity. In agreement with aforementioned studies on captive vertebrates, these results remind us that reproduction is expected to be traded against body maintenance and the survival prospect only when resources are so limiting that they induce an allocation trade-off. Thus, the cost of reproduction has a major extrinsic component driven by environmental conditions.
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