Productive foraging grounds enhance maternal condition and offspring quality in a capital breeding species
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70137
Abstract: Abstract Feeding ecology is an essential component of an organism's life, but foraging comes with risks and energetic costs. Species in which populations exhibit more than one feeding strategy, such as sea turtles, are good… read more here.
Keywords: ecology; feeding ecology; capital; offspring quality ... See more keywords
Close‐kin mating, but not inbred parents, reduces hatching rates and offspring quality in a threatened tortoise
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DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13518
Abstract: Inbreeding depression, the reduction in fitness due to mating of related individuals, is of particular conservation concern in species with small, isolated populations. Although inbreeding depression is widespread in natural populations, long‐lived species may be… read more here.
Keywords: long lived; inbreeding avoidance; inbreeding depression; offspring quality ... See more keywords
Sex‐specific paternal age effects on offspring quality in Drosophila melanogaster
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DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14167
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: paternal age; offspring quality; sex specific; age ... See more keywords