Parental age, gametic age, and inbreeding interact to modulate offspring viability in Drosophila melanogaster.

In principle, parental relatedness, parental age, and the age of parental gametes can all influence offspring fitness through inbreeding depression and the parental effects of organismal and postmeiotic gametic senescence. However, little is known about the extent to which these factors interact and...

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Main Authors: Tan, C, Pizzari, T, Wigby, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013