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SUBMITTER: Schroeder J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4386340 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150309 13
A nongenetic, transgenerational effect of parental age on offspring fitness has been described in many taxa in the laboratory. Such a transgenerational fitness effect will have important influences on population dynamics, population age structure, and the evolution of aging and lifespan. However, effects of parental age on offspring lifetime fitness have never been demonstrated in a natural population. We show that parental age has sex-specific negative effects on lifetime fitness, using data fr ...[more]