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DP210100468 - Efectos paternales mediados por el eyacu

Ejaculate-mediated paternal effects on offspring fitness
Efectos paternales mediados por el eyaculado sobre la eficacia biológica de la descendencia
Principal investigator
Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez
Financial institution
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
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Code
DP210100468
Department
Ecology and Evolution
Researchers
Evans, Jonathan (University of Western Australia); Pilastro, Andrea (University of Padova); Wilson, Alastair (University of Exeter)
Brief description
This project aims to unravel the evolutionary importance of ejaculate-mediated paternal effects, through which paternal lifestyle factors, such as diet and exposure to toxicants, influence offspring growth and health independently of genes. By identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying these non-genetic sources of inheritance, their adaptive value, and their potential to fuel evolutionary change, the project expects to generate new knowledge that will be relevant across the biological, medical and agricultural sectors. Expected outcomes and benefits include building Institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations and the development of tools to understand the evolutionary impacts of paternal lifestyle choices for offspring traits.

El objetivo de esta colaboración es avanzar en el estudio de efectos transgeneracionales mediados por la transmisión del eyaculado por parte de los machos, los cuales según una revisión que todos los miembros del equipo hemos realizado recientemente (Reproduction 2019: 157, R109-R126) emergen como importantes transmisores de información biológica a través de las generaciones al margen de transmisión alélica.