Article Dans Une Revue Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Année : 2024

Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird

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Although the effect of sperm quality is well studied in the context of sperm competition, its effect on offspring performance, especially after the embryo stages, has been less investigated. Here, we investigated whether the proportion of spermatozoa with normal morphology was associated with offspring performance during chick development in the blacklegged kittiwake, a behaviorally and genetically monogamous seabird in which sperm competition is absent. First, we found that, at hatching, the difference in body condition between the first-and second-hatched siblings was higher when the father had a lower proportion of normal spermatozoa. We discuss this result in light of maternal allocation strategy to manipulate sibling competition. Second, we showed that, in first-hatched chicks, body mass growth between hatching and the age of 10 days, body condition at the age of 10 days and maximum body mass reached before fledging were positively related to the proportion of normal spermatozoa in the father's sperm. Overall, our results support the role of sperm quality on offspring performance in the black-legged kittiwake and call for further studies investigating the importance of sperm quality in genetically monogamous species.

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hal-04802123 , version 1 (26-11-2024)

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Frédéric Manas, Maxime Pineaux, Ségolène Humann-Guilleminot, Scott A Hatch, Pierrick Blanchard, et al.. Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2024, 78 (11), pp.118. ⟨10.1007/s00265-024-03540-w⟩. ⟨hal-04802123⟩
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