Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird
Optimal sex allocation is frequency-dependent, but senescence may cause behaviour at old age to be suboptimal. We investigated whether sex allocation changes with parental age, using 16 years of data comprising more than 2500 molecularly sexed offspring of more than 600 known-age parents in common t...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::db6ec3154480ad7c13afe286087ff279 2023-05-15T18:27:24+02:00 Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird Peter H. Becker María M. Benito Sandra Bouwhuis Oscar Vedder 2016-08-02 https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/36117121/Vedder_et_al_2016_BL.pdf https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5014021/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27484643 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5014021 https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/malebiased-sex-allocation-in-ageing-parents-a-longitudinal-study-in-a-longlived-seabird(a8ba4af1-832c-419d-9bb0-d8a8f4a8b84e).html https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2489698089 undefined unknown The Royal Society https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/36117121/Vedder_et_al_2016_BL.pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5014021/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27484643 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5014021 https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/malebiased-sex-allocation-in-ageing-parents-a-longitudinal-study-in-a-longlived-seabird(a8ba4af1-832c-419d-9bb0-d8a8f4a8b84e).html https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2489698089 undefined 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 27484643 oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5014021 2489698089 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 openaire____::1256f046-bf1f-4afc-8b47-d0b147148b18 10|openaire____::55045bd2a65019fd8e6741a755395c8c 10|opendoar____::eda80a3d5b344bc40f3bc04f65b7a357 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::6be43c25e856e7570d09812cbd6a0338 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|openaire____::806360c771262b4d6770e7cdf04b5c5a Evolutionary Biology Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) General Agricultural and Biological Sciences psy demo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2016 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0260 2023-01-22T17:13:29Z Optimal sex allocation is frequency-dependent, but senescence may cause behaviour at old age to be suboptimal. We investigated whether sex allocation changes with parental age, using 16 years of data comprising more than 2500 molecularly sexed offspring of more than 600 known-age parents in common terns ( Sterna hirundo ), slightly sexually size-dimorphic seabirds. We decomposed parental age effects into within-individual change and sex allocation-associated selective (dis)appearance. Individual parents did not differ consistently in sex allocation, but offspring sex ratios at fledging changed from female- to male-biased as parents aged. Sex ratios at hatching were not related to parental age, suggesting sons to outperform daughters after hatching in broods of old parents. Our results call for the integration of sex allocation theory with theory on ageing and demography, as a change in sex allocation with age per se will cause the age structure of a population to affect the frequency-dependent benefits and the age-specific strength of selection on sex allocation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sterna hirundo Unknown Biology Letters 12 8 20160260 |
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Optimal sex allocation is frequency-dependent, but senescence may cause behaviour at old age to be suboptimal. We investigated whether sex allocation changes with parental age, using 16 years of data comprising more than 2500 molecularly sexed offspring of more than 600 known-age parents in common terns ( Sterna hirundo ), slightly sexually size-dimorphic seabirds. We decomposed parental age effects into within-individual change and sex allocation-associated selective (dis)appearance. Individual parents did not differ consistently in sex allocation, but offspring sex ratios at fledging changed from female- to male-biased as parents aged. Sex ratios at hatching were not related to parental age, suggesting sons to outperform daughters after hatching in broods of old parents. Our results call for the integration of sex allocation theory with theory on ageing and demography, as a change in sex allocation with age per se will cause the age structure of a population to affect the frequency-dependent benefits and the age-specific strength of selection on sex allocation. |
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Peter H. Becker María M. Benito Sandra Bouwhuis Oscar Vedder |
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Peter H. Becker María M. Benito Sandra Bouwhuis Oscar Vedder |
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Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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Male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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male-biased sex allocation in ageing parents; a longitudinal study in a long-lived seabird |
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