ArticleEcology and evolution2022
Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Acute Heat Exposure Upregulates Zebra Finch Physiology While Avoiding DNA Damage Across Both Sexes.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026Article
- Intraspecific support for the climate variability hypothesis: oxidative damage in lizards after acute temperature exposure.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- The cell origin of reactive oxygen species and its implication for evolutionary trade-offs.Open biology · 2025Review
- Variation in Lipid Peroxidation in the Ejaculates of Wild Banded Mongooses (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of prolactin on cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in ovine ovarian granulosa cells.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Corrigendum.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2022
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12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The cost of reproduction plays a central role in evolutionary theory, but the identity of the underlying mechanisms remains a puzzle. Oxidative stress has been hypothesized to be a proximate mechanism that may explain the cost of reproduction. We examine three pathways by which oxidative stress could shape reproduction. The "oxidative cost" hypothesis proposes that reproductive effort generates oxidative stress, while the "oxidative constraint" and "oxidative shielding" hypotheses suggest that mothers mitigate such costs through reducing reproductive effort or by pre-emptively decreasing damage levels, respectively. We tested these three mechanisms using data from a long-term food provisioning experiment on wild female banded mongooses (
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