Maternal age affects offspring lifespan of the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus
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Maternal age affects offspring lifespan of the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus
1. Offspring from older parents often have shorter adult lifespans than offspring of younger mothers. We examine the effects of offspring genotype, maternal age and paternal age on offspring survival, development and adult lifespan in the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus . 2. Females took about a quarter of a day longer to develop from an egg to an adult and lived ≈ 7 days longer than male...
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عنوان ژورنال: Functional Ecology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0269-8463
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00799.x