Effects of maternal age and stress on offspring quality in a viviparous fly

Jennifer S Lord; Robert Leyland; Lee R Haines; Antoine M G Barreaux; Michael B Bonsall; Stephen J Torr; Sinead English

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Effects of maternal age and stress on offspring quality in a viviparous fly

Jennifer S Lord, Robert Leyland, Lee R Haines, Antoine M G Barreaux, Michael B Bonsall, Stephen J Torr, Sinead English

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Many organisms show signs of deterioration with age in terms of survival and reproduction. We tested whether intraspecific variation in such senescence patterns can be driven by resource availability or reproductive history. We did this by manipulating nutritional stress and age at first reproduction and measuring age-dependent reproductive output in tsetse (Glossina morsitans morsitans), a viviparous fly with high maternal allocation. Across all treatments, offspring weight followed a bell-shaped curve with maternal age. Nutritionally stressed females had a higher probability of abortion and produced offspring with lower starvation tolerance. There was no evidence of an increased rate of reproductive senescence in nutritionally stressed females, or a reduced rate due to delayed mating, as measured by patterns of abortion, offspring weight or offspring starvation tolerance. Therefore, although we found evidence of reproductive senescence in tsetse, our results did not indicate that resource allocation trade-offs or costs of reproduction increase the rate of senescence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2113-2122
Number of pages	10
Journal	Ecology Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	10
Early online date	15 Jul 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13839
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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We thank Jessica Lingley for assistance in the analysis of the fat content of pupae and Glyn Vale for input on an earlier version of the manuscript, and John Hargrove, Matt Keeling and Kat Rock for general discussion. We thank Daniel May for digitising the LSTM tsetse colony laboratory books which provided important pilot data for our experiments. The research was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, grant numbers BB/P005888/1 and BB/P006159/1. SE was supported by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DH140236).

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tsetse

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Big baby, little mother: tsetse flies are exceptions to the juvenile small size principle
Haines, L. R., Vale, G., Barreaux, A. M. G., Ellstrand, N., Hargrove, J. & English, S., 8 Oct 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BioEssays. 42, 11, 6 p., 2000049.
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