2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.19.613916
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No evidence for paternal age effects on sons or daughters, when accounting for paternal sperm storage

Krish Sanghvi,
Samuel Gascoigne,
Biliana Todorova
et al.

Abstract: 1. The age at which a father reproduces is predicted to affect not only his own fertility but also the fitness of his offspring. Specifically, offspring born to old fathers are assumed to be of a lower quality than those conceived by young fathers. However, when fathers have low mating rates, paternal age might be confounded with the duration for which mature sperm are stored in fathers prior to ejaculation. 2. Studies that disentangle the confounding effects of paternal sperm storage duration from those of pa… Show more

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