Date of Award

1-1-2019

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.S.

Organizational Unit

Biological Sciences

First Advisor

Shannon M. Murphy, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Robin Tinghitella, Ph.D.

Keywords

Aging, Life history theory, Parental effect

Abstract

Advanced parental age is an important aspect of parental condition that can have both positive and negative effects on offspring fitness, and thus, parental age can be considered a parental effect. As a parental effect, parental age may affect a variety of offspring traits and may cascade to influence several generations of offspring. Given the complexities of studying both paternal and maternal age, we studied the effects of maternal age only. Using the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, we asked 1) does maternal age have influences over several generations of offspring and 2) does maternal age influence the reproductive investment of male offspring? We found that maternal age has contrasting effects on different traits, and those effects may last a single generation or may be sustained through several generations.

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Jacob Dean Wilson

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

53 p.

Discipline

Evolution & development, Ecology

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