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JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
卷 36, 期 4, 页码 720-729出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14167
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Drosophila melanogaster; offspring weight; paternal age; sex ratio; sex-specific
Advanced paternal age can modulate offspring quality via male- and/or female-driven processes, and these effects may be sex-specific. Using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism, we found that paternal age caused an increase in offspring quality, and this increase was more pronounced in daughters.
Advanced paternal age has been repeatedly shown to modulate offspring quality via male- and/or female-driven processes, and there are theoretical reasons to expect that some of these effects can be sex-specific. For example, sex allocation theory predicts that, when mated with low-condition males, mothers should invest more in their daughters compared to their sons. This is because male fitness is generally more condition-dependent and more variable than female fitness, which makes it less risky to invest in female offspring. Here, we explore whether paternal age can affect the quality and quantity of offspring in a sex-specific way using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. In order to understand the contribution of male-driven processes on paternal age effects, we also measured the seminal vesicle size of young and older males and explored its relationship with reproductive success and offspring quality. Older males had lower competitive reproductive success, as expected, but there was no difference between the offspring sex ratio of young and older males. However, we found that paternal age caused an increase in offspring quality (i.e., offspring weight), and that this increase was more marked in daughters than sons. We discuss different male- and female-driven processes that may explain such sex-specific paternal age effects.
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