Paternal environment effects are driven by female reproductive fluid but not sperm age in an external fertilizer

JH Hadlow, RA Lymbery, JP Evans - Biology Letters, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sperm ageing after ejaculation can generate paternal environment effects that impact
offspring fitness. In many species, female reproductive fluids (FRFs), ie ancillary fluids …

Sperm performance in the race for fertilization, the influence of female reproductive fluid

L Pinzoni, MB Rasotto… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In studies of sperm competition, particularly in external fertilizers, the importance of the
fertilization environment on the paternity share among rival males often goes overlooked …

Per capita sperm metabolism is density dependent

AE Potter, CR White… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
From bacteria to metazoans, higher density populations have lower per capita metabolic
rates than lower density populations. The negative covariance between population density …

Investigating the role of mitochondrial membrane potential in paternal inheritance of mitochondria

A Pouliot-Drouin, T Niaison, S Breton… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The process of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in mitochondria depends on an
electrochemical gradient known as the mitochondrial membrane potential (Δ ψ m) …

[PDF][PDF] Sperm, eggs, pollen, and gelato, oh my!

E Whittington, M Alund - Molecular …, 2023 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
On September 4, 2023, the sky cleared over Nynäshamn, Sweden, and researchers from
across the globe gathered for the 16th Biology of Spermatozoa (BoS) meeting. What …

Causes and consequences of male reproductive senescence

K Sanghvi - 2024 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Ageing, a universal phenomenon across all life forms, encompasses changes in a myriad of
traits through organismal ontogeny. While senescence, the deterioration of traits with …

Post-ejaculatory environmental effects on sperm phenotype and reproductive fitness in a broadcast spawning marine invertebrate

J Hadlow - 2024 - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
The post-ejaculatory environment, ie, either in the female reproductive tract for internal
fertilisers or in an external medium for external fertilisers, can be very hostile for sperm cells …