ArticleEvolution letters2019
Exposure to male-dominated environments during development influences sperm sex ratios at sexual maturity.
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- Does a Father's Social Environment Influence Their Sons' Sperm Sex Ratio? Potential for the Epigenetic Transmission of a Sex-Allocating Mechanism.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Parental effects on offspring sex ratio in the Numbat (Journal of mammalogy · 2023Article
- Intergenerational response to sperm competition risk in an invasive mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Conservation Biology and Reproduction in a Time of Developmental Plasticity.Biomolecules · 2022Review
- The spatial and temporal distribution of females influence the evolution of testes size in Australian rodents.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Y/X-Chromosome-Bearing Sperm Shows Elevated Ratio in the Left but Not the Right Testes in Healthy Mice.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Increased sperm production linked to competition in the maternal social environment.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- The effects of maternal separation stress experienced by parents on male reproductive potential in the next generation.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Exposure to high male density causes maternal stress and female-biased sex ratios in a mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Different stages during development are important when it comes to phenotypic adjustments in response to external stimuli. Critical stages in mammals are the prenatal phase, where embryos are exposed to a milieu of sex steroid hormones, and the early-postnatal phase, where littermates interact and experience their incipient social environment. Further, the postmaternal environment will influence the development of traits that are linked to reproductive success in adulthood. Accumulated evidence of male-driven sex allocation establishes the currently untested hypothesis that the sperm sex ratio is a plastic trait that can be mediated to align with prevailing social conditions. Here, we used natural variation in the maternal environment and experimentally manipulated the postmaternal environment to identify the importance of these developmental phases on sperm sex ratio adjustments in wild house mice (
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