Oxidative damage, ageing, and life-history evolution: where now?

C Selman, JD Blount, DH Nussey… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012 - cell.com
The idea that resources are limited and animals can maximise fitness by trading costly
activities off against one another forms the basis of life-history theory. Although investment in …

Oxidative stress as a cost of reproduction: Beyond the simplistic trade‐off model

JR Speakman, M Garratt - BioEssays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that oxidative stress may underpin life history trade‐offs has become extremely
popular. However, experimental support for the concept has proved equivocal. It has …

Oxidative stress and life histories: unresolved issues and current needs

JR Speakman, JD Blount, AM Bronikowski… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Life‐history theory concerns the trade‐offs that mold the patterns of investment by animals
between reproduction, growth, and survival. It is widely recognized that physiology plays a …

The free‐radical damage theory: accumulating evidence against a simple link of oxidative stress to ageing and lifespan

JR Speakman, C Selman - Bioessays, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work on a small European cave salamander (Proteus anguinus) has revealed that it
has exceptional longevity, yet it appears to have unexceptional defences against oxidative …

Oxidative shielding and the cost of reproduction

JD Blount, EIK Vitikainen, I Stott, MA Cant - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Life‐history theory assumes that reproduction and lifespan are constrained by trade‐offs
which prevent their simultaneous increase. Recently, there has been considerable interest …

Does reproduction cause oxidative stress? An open question

NB Metcalfe, P Monaghan - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
There has been substantial recent interest in the possible role of oxidative stress as a
mechanism underlying life-history trade-offs, particularly with regard to reproductive costs …

Constraint and cost of oxidative stress on reproduction: correlative evidence in laboratory mice and review of the literature

A Stier, S Reichert, S Massemin, P Bize, F Criscuolo - Frontiers in zoology, 2012 - Springer
Background One central concept in evolutionary ecology is that current and residual
reproductive values are negatively linked by the so-called cost of reproduction. Previous …

Contamination by Trace Elements and Oxidative Stress in the Skeletal Muscle of Scyliorhinus canicula from the Central Tyrrhenian Sea

M Filice, FR Reinero, MC Cerra, C Faggio, FL Leonetti… - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Marine pollution, due to the regular discharge of contaminants by various anthropogenic
sources, is a growing problem that imposes detrimental influences on natural species …

Regulation of sexually dimorphic expression of major urinary proteins

DJ Penn, SM Zala, KC Luzynski - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Male house mice excrete large amounts of protein in their urinary scent marks, mainly
composed of Major Urinary Proteins (MUPs), and these lipocalins function as pheromones …

Elevated oxidative damage is correlated with reduced fitness in interpopulation hybrids of a marine copepod

FS Barreto, RS Burton - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aerobic energy production occurs via the oxidative phosphorylation pathway (OXPHOS),
which is critically dependent on interactions between the 13 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) …