Search: onr:"swepub:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/270652" >
Effects of male tel...
Effects of male telomeres on probability of paternity in sand lizards
-
- Pauliny, Angela, 1972 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
-
Miller, E. (author)
-
Rollings, N. (author)
-
show more...
-
Wapstra, E. (author)
-
- Blomqvist, Donald, 1954 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
-
Friesen, C. R. (author)
-
- Olsson, Mats, 1960 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
-
show less...
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- 2018-08-22
- 2018
- English.
-
In: Biology Letters. - : The Royal Society. - 1744-9561 .- 1744-957X. ; 14:8
- Related links:
-
https://royalsociety...
-
show more...
-
https://gup.ub.gu.se...
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- Standardized swim-up trials are used in in vitro fertilization clinics to select particularly motile spermatozoa in order to increase the probability of a successful fertilization. Such trials demonstrate that sperm with longer telomeres have higher motility and lower levels of DNA damage. Regardless of whether sperm motility, and successful swim-up to fertilization sites, is a direct or correlational effect of telomere length or DNA damage, covariation between telomere length and sperm performance predicts a relationship between telomere length and probability of paternity in sperm competition, a prediction that for ethical reasons cannot be tested on humans. Here, we test this prediction in sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) using experimental data from twice-mated females in a laboratory population, and telomere length in blood from the participating lizards. Female identity influenced paternity (while the mechanism was not identified), while relatively longer male telomeres predicted higher probability of paternity. We discuss potential mechanisms underpinning this result.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database