ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Older mothers produce more successful daughters.
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- Parental Age Effects on Offspring Telomere Length Across Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis.Molecular ecology · 2026Pooled it
- Parental age selection in C. elegans influences progeny stress resistance capacity.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- Persistent maternal age effects on male offspring fitness traits in a wild mammal population.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade-offs.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- What does not kill you makes you stronger? Effects of paternal age at conception on fathers and sons.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024Article
- Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird.Evolution letters · 2022Article
- Experimentally manipulated food availability affects offspring quality but not quantity in zebra finch meso-populations.Oecologia · 2022Article
- The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output.The American naturalist · 2022Article
- Parental age at conception on mouse lemur's offspring longevity: Sex-specific maternal effects.PloS one · 2022Article
- Beneficial cumulative effects of old parental age on offspring fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Longitudinal evidence that older parents produce offspring with longer telomeres in a wild social bird.Biology letters · 2021Article
- How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A demographic and evolutionary analysis of maternal effect senescence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Annual reproductive success and senescence patterns vary substantially among individuals in the wild. However, it is still seldom considered that senescence may not only affect an individual but also affect age-specific reproductive success in its offspring, generating transgenerational reproductive senescence. We used long-term data from wild yellow-bellied marmots (
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