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High-protein paternal diet confers an advantage to sons in sperm competition

Parental environment can widely influence offspring phenotype, but paternal effects in the absence of parental care remain poorly understood. We asked if protein content in the larval diet of fathers affected paternity success and gene expression in their sons. We found that males reared on high-pro...

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Autores principales: Zajitschek, Felix, Zajitschek, Susanne, Manier, Mollie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0914