2018
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14467
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Abstract: The importance of parental contributions to offspring development and subsequent performance is self-evident at a genomic level; however, parents can also affect offspring fitness by indirect genetic and environmental routes. The life history strategy that an individual adopts will be influenced by both genes and environment; and show that there can be significant links between parental life history and offspring telomere length (studied at the embryo and fry stage). Maternal life history traits, in particular… Show more

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“…In humans, this trend parallels a qualitatively similar change in sperm TL with age, which is assumed to underlie the TL increase in offspring (20). However, studies of parental age effects in other species show mixed results and trends differ in direction between and within taxa (19,21).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 68%
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“…In humans, this trend parallels a qualitatively similar change in sperm TL with age, which is assumed to underlie the TL increase in offspring (20). However, studies of parental age effects in other species show mixed results and trends differ in direction between and within taxa (19,21).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 68%
“…Lastly, due to their cross-sectional character, studies to date could not investigate whether changes in parental TL with age were predictive of changes in offspring TL with parental age at conception. These issues need to be resolved to establish whether the correlations between parental age and offspring TL can be attributed to epigenetic inheritance of TL, and before we can begin to understand why parental age effects on offspring TL appear to differ between and within taxa (19,21).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Effects of maternal age on offspring telomere length have been relatively little studied. The results are again mixed, with both positive and negative relationships being reported [92,94,114], or alternatively no effect of the age of either parent [115,116]. A comparison in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata of offspring from the same mothers when young and when old (both mated to young males) shows a marked decline in the telomere length of fully grown offspring with maternal age [117].…”
Section: (B) Telomere Attrition In the Germlinementioning
confidence: 96%
“…The two-way interactions between offspring sex and maternal traits, as well as between offspring sex and growth rate, were included in all three models. Standardized residual mean egg weight corrected for incubation stage was included in all models to control for effects on offspring phenotype due to differences in maternal reproductive investment, which may influence, e.g., offspring telomere lengths (McLennan et al 2018).…”
Section: Statistical Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%