Oxidative stress during courtship affects male and female reproductive effort differentially in a wild bird with biparental care
Oxidative stress during courtship affects male and female reproductive effort differentially in a wild bird with biparental care
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求爱期间的氧化应激对双亲照顾的野生鸟类的雄性和雌性生殖努力的影响不同
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
R. Torres
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作者:
Bibiana Montoya;M. Valverde;E. Rojas;R. Torres
ABSTRACT Oxidative stress has been suggested as one of the physiological mechanisms modulating reproductive effort, including investment in mate choice. Here, we evaluated whether oxidative stress influences breeding decisions by acting as a cost of or constraint on reproduction in the brown booby (Sula leucogaster), a long-lived seabird with prolonged biparental care. We found that during courtship, levels of lipid peroxidation (LP) of males and females were positively associated with gular skin color, a trait presumably used in mate choice, while levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were higher as laying approached and in early breeding pairs. Evidence of a constraining effect of oxidative stress for females was suggested by the fact that females with higher ROS during courtship laid smaller first eggs and had chicks with lower rates of body mass gain, and higher female LP was associated with lower offspring attendance time. No evidence of an oxidative cost of parental effort was found; from courtship to parental care, levels of ROS in males and females decreased, and changes in LP levels were non-significant. Finally, using a cross-fostering experiment we found that offspring ROS was unrelated to rearing and genetic parents' ROS. Interestingly, offspring LP was positively associated with the LP during courtship of both the rearing parents and the genetic father, suggesting that offspring LP might have both a genetic and an environmental component. Hence, in the brown booby, oxidative stress may be a cost of investment in reproductive traits before egg laying and constrain females' investment in eggs and parental care. Summary: In the brown booby, oxidative stress may arise as a cost of pre-laying reproductive investment in both sexes and constrain investment in eggs and offspring by females.
影响因子:
9.2
作者:
Mundy, Nicholas I.;Stapley, Jessica;Slate, Jon
通讯作者:
Slate, Jon
影响因子:
14.8
作者:
Dickinson, Bryan C.;Chang, Christopher J.
通讯作者:
Chang, Christopher J.