Intrinsic post-ejaculation sperm ageing does not affect offspring fitness in Atlantic salmon ...
Postmeiotic sperm ageing, both before and after ejaculation, has been shown to negatively affect offspring fitness by lowering the rate of embryonic development, reducing embryonic viability, and decreasing offspring condition. These negative effects are thought to be caused by intrinsic factors suc...
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Language: | English |
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Dryad
2020
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3n5tb2rcz https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3n5tb2rcz |
Summary: | Postmeiotic sperm ageing, both before and after ejaculation, has been shown to negatively affect offspring fitness by lowering the rate of embryonic development, reducing embryonic viability, and decreasing offspring condition. These negative effects are thought to be caused by intrinsic factors such as oxidative stress and ATP depletion or extrinsic factors such as temperature and osmosis. Effects of post-ejaculation sperm ageing on offspring fitness have so far almost exclusively been tested in internal fertilisers. Here, we tested whether intrinsic post-ejaculation sperm ageing affects offspring performance in an external fertiliser, the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. We performed in vitro fertilisations with a split clutch design where sperm were subjected to four post-ejaculation ageing treatments. We varied the duration between sperm activation and fertilisation while minimising extrinsic stress factors and tested how this affected offspring fitness. We found no evidence for an effect of our treatments ... |
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