How males alter their mates' ageing rates and lifespans

男性如何改变伴侣的衰老速度和寿命

• 批准号: DP150100676
• 负责人: Prof Robert Brooks
• 金额: $ 38.71万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150100676
• 关键词: How; males; alter; their; mates

The proposed project investigates how males affect the lifespan, ageing and subsequent reproduction of their mates. It seeks to draw on and adapt tools and approaches used in molecular genetics and physiology to test predictions from evolutionary theories of sexual conflict, life-histories and ageing in an organism of biomedical and ecological significance, the house mouse. It is expected that this approach will allow the study, in unsurpassed detail, of the costs males impose on females via mating, insemination, territoriality and via conflict over how many offspring to have and how to invest in their care.

这项拟议的项目调查了男性如何影响其配偶的寿命、衰老和随后的繁殖。它试图利用和调整分子遗传学和生理学中使用的工具和方法，以测试具有生物医学和生态意义的有机体--家鼠--的性别冲突、生活史和衰老的进化理论的预测。预计这种方法将使这项研究得以无与伦比的细节，研究雄性通过交配、授精、领地和冲突对雌性施加的成本，这些冲突涉及到生下多少后代以及如何投资于它们的照料。