期刊
EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY
卷 44, 期 9, 页码 601-606出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2009.06.008
关键词
Mating tactics; Reproduction; Time-varying Cox-model; Wing-wear; Lepidoptera
资金
- National Institute on Aging [P01 AG022500-01, P01 AG608761-10]
Male life history and resource allocation is not frequently studied in aging and life span research. Here, we verify that males of long-lived fruit-feeding butterfly species have reduced longevity on restricted diets [Beck, J., 2007. The importance of amino acids in the adult diet of male tropical rainforest butterflies. Oecologia 151, 741-747], in contrast to the common finding of longevity extension in dietary restriction experiments in Drosophila and some other organisms. Males of some of the most long-lived species of fruit-feeding butterflies were collected from Kibale Forest, Uganda, and kept on diets of either sugar or mashed banana. Seven out of eight species had non-significantly longer life spans on mashed banana diets. Data analysis using a time-varying Cox-model with species as covariate showed that males had reduced survival on the sugar diet during the first 35 days of captive life, but the effect was absent or reversed at more advanced ages. These results challenge the generality of dietary restriction as a way to extend life span in animals. We argue that such studies on males are promising tools for better understanding life history evolution and aging because males display a wider variety of tactics for obtaining reproductive success than females. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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