ArticleBiology letters2021
The thermal environment of sperm affects offspring success: a test of the anticipatory paternal effects hypothesis in the blue mussel.
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- Variation in sperm performance and mitochondrial metabolism of Mytilus spp. from the North and Baltic Seas under different environmental scenarios.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Heatwave-Induced Paternal Effects Have Limited Adaptive Benefits in Offspring.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Pre-fertilization gamete thermal environment influences reproductive success, unmasking opposing sex-specific responses in Atlantic salmon (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Paternal environment effects are driven by female reproductive fluid but not sperm age in an external fertilizer.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Marine heatwave temperatures enhance larval performance but are meditated by paternal thermal history and inter-individual differences in the purple sea urchin,Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- The Physiological and Evolutionary Ecology of Sperm Thermal Performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- The thermal environment of sperm affects offspring success: a test of the anticipatory paternal effects hypothesis in the blue mussel.Biology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
There has been an explosion of recent evidence that environments experienced by fathers or their ejaculates can influence offspring phenotypes (paternal effects). However, little is known about whether such effects are adaptive, which would have far-reaching implications for the many species facing rapidly changing environments. For example, some arguments suggest paternal effects might be a source of cross-generational plasticity, preparing offspring to face similar conditions to their father (anticipatory hypothesis). Alternatively, ejaculate-mediated effects on offspring may be non-adaptive by-products of stress. Here, we conduct an experiment to distinguish between these predictions, exposing ejaculates of the externally fertilizing mussel
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