ArticleEvolution letters2019
Selection for longer lived sperm within ejaculate reduces reproductive ageing in offspring.
Article in Evolution letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Cryptic female choice within individual males - A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Review
- Accounting for the genetic load in assisted reproductive technology.Clinical and translational medicine · 2022Article
- The thermal environment of sperm affects offspring success: a test of the anticipatory paternal effects hypothesis in the blue mussel.Biology letters · 2021Article
- The role of oxidative stress in postcopulatory selection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Males produce numerous sperm in a single ejaculate that greatly outnumber their potential egg targets. Recent studies found that phenotypic and genotypic variation among sperm in a single ejaculate of a male affects the fitness and performance of the resulting offspring. Specifically, within-ejaculate sperm selection for sperm longevity increased the performance of the resulting offspring in several key life-history traits in early life. Because increased early-life reproductive performance often correlates with rapid ageing, it is possible that within-ejaculate sperm selection increases early-life fitness at the cost of accelerated senescence. Alternatively, within-ejaculate sperm selection could improve offspring quality throughout the life cycle, including reduced age-specific deterioration. We tested the two alternative hypotheses in an experimental setup using zebrafish
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