Offspring of older parents are smaller—but no less bilaterally symmetrical—than offspring of younger parents in the aquatic plant Lemna turionifera
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3697
Abstract: Abstract Offspring quality decreases with parental age in many taxa, with offspring of older parents exhibiting reduced life span, reproductive capacity, and fitness, compared to offspring of younger parents. These “parental age effects,” whose consequences… read more here.
Keywords: parental age; older parents; age; younger parents ... See more keywords