ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Male age alone predicts paternity success under sperm competition when effects of age and past mating effort are experimentally separated.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analysis shows no consistent evidence for senescence in ejaculate traits across animals.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Reproductive output of old males is limited by seminal fluid, not sperm number.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Lifetime trajectories of male mating effort under reproductive conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Male allocation to ejaculation and mating effort imposes different life history trade-offs.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Separating the effects of paternal age and mating history: Evidence for sex-specific paternal effect in eastern mosquitofish.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- A synthesis of senescence predictions for indeterminate growth, and support from multiple tests in wild lake trout.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Male age alone predicts paternity success under sperm competition when effects of age and past mating effort are experimentally separated.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Effects of past mating behavior versus past ejaculation on male mate choice and male attractiveness.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Older males often perform poorly under post-copulatory sexual selection. It is unclear, however, whether reproductive senescence is because of male age itself or the accumulated costs of the higher lifetime mating effort that is usually associated with male age. To date, very few studies have accounted for mating history and sperm storage when testing the effect of male age on sperm traits, and none test how age and past mating history influence paternity success under sperm competition. Here, we experimentally manipulate male mating history to tease apart its effects from that of age on ejaculate traits and paternity in the mosquitofish,
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.