Offspring of older parents are smaller—but no less bilaterally symmetrical—than offspring of younger parents in the aquatic plant Lemna turionifera
Abstract Offspring quality decreases with parental age in many taxa, with offspring of older parents exhibiting reduced life span, reproductive capacity, and fitness, compared to offspring of younger parents. These “parental age effects,” whose consequences arise in the next generation, can be consi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2018-01-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3697 |