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1 February 2009 Delayed Fatherhood in Mice Decreases Reproductive Fitness and Longevity of Offspring
Silvia García-Palomares, Samuel Navarro, José F. Pertusa, Carlos Hermenegildo, Miguel A. García-Pérez, Francisco Rausell, Antonio Cano, Juan J. Tarín
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Abstract

This study aims to analyze, in mice, the long-term effects of delayed fatherhood on reproductive fitness and longevity of offspring. Hybrid parental-generation (F0) males, at the age of 12, 70, 100, and 120 wk, were individually housed with a randomly selected 12-wk-old hybrid female. The reproductive fitness of first-generation (F1) females was tested from the age of 25 wk until the end of their reproductive life. In F1 males, the testing period ranged from the age of 52 wk until death. Breeding F1 females from the 120-wk group displayed interbirth intervals longer than females from the 12-, 70-, and 100-wk groups. Furthermore, F2 pups begotten by F1 studs exhibited weaning weights lower than pups from the 12- and 70-wk groups. Offspring from the 120-wk group exhibited shorter survival times associated with lower incidence of tumorigenesis and higher loss of body weight when approaching death when compared to F1 offspring from younger age-groups. The results indicate that advanced paternal age at conception has negative long-term effects on reproductive fitness and longevity of offspring in the mouse model.

Silvia García-Palomares, Samuel Navarro, José F. Pertusa, Carlos Hermenegildo, Miguel A. García-Pérez, Francisco Rausell, Antonio Cano, and Juan J. Tarín "Delayed Fatherhood in Mice Decreases Reproductive Fitness and Longevity of Offspring," Biology of Reproduction 80(2), 343-349, (1 February 2009). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.108.073395
Received: 9 September 2008; Accepted: 1 October 2008; Published: 1 February 2009
KEYWORDS
aging
delayed fatherhood
gamete biology
long-term effects
offspring
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