ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Beneficial cumulative effects of old parental age on offspring fitness.
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.
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- Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects.Evolution letters · 2026Article
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- 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
- Maternal age effects on offspring lifespan and reproduction vary within a species.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Maternal aging increases offspring adult body size via transmission of donut-shaped mitochondria.Cell research · 2023Article
- 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
- Evidence of Paternal Effects on Telomere Length Increases in Early Life.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Beneficial cumulative effects of old parental age on offspring fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Old parental age is commonly associated with negative effects on offspring life-history traits. Such parental senescence effects are predicted to have a cumulative detrimental effect over successive generations. However, old parents may benefit from producing higher quality offspring when these compete for seasonal resources. Thus, old parents may choose to increase investment in their offspring, thereby producing fewer but larger and more competitive progeny. We show that
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