How males alter their mates' ageing rates and lifespans

拟议的项目调查雄性如何影响其配偶的寿命、衰老和随后的生殖。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学意义的有机体家鼠的性冲突、生活史和衰老的进化理论的预测。预计这种方法将允许研究，在无与伦比的细节，成本男性强加给女性通过交配，授精，领土和冲突，有多少后代和如何投资于他们的照顾。

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.