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 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 …

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 …

Artificial light at night affects body mass but not oxidative status in free-living nestling songbirds: an experimental study

T Raap, G Casasole, D Costantini, H AbdElgawad… - Scientific Reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
Artificial light at night (ALAN), termed light pollution, is an increasingly important
anthropogenic environmental pressure on wildlife. Exposure to unnatural lighting …

A meta-analysis of impacts of immune response and infection on oxidative status in vertebrates

D Costantini - Conservation Physiology, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Inferring from patterns observed in biomedical research, ecoimmunological theory predicts
that oxidative stress is a ubiquitous physiological cost that contributes to generating variation …

Experimental warming induces oxidative stress and immunosuppression in a viviparous lizard, Eremias multiocellata

X Han, X Hao, Y Wang, X Wang, L Teng, Z Liu… - Journal of thermal …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Reptiles are especially vulnerable to climate warming because their behavior, physiology,
and life history are highly dependent on environmental temperature. In this study, we …

The oxidative cost of reproduction: theoretical questions and alternative mechanisms

C Alonso-Alvarez, T Canelo, AÁ Romero-Haro - BioScience, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
The role of reproduction in increasing oxidative stress may be fundamental to understanding
aging and the evolutionary trade-off between survival and fecundity. However, contradictory …

It takes two to tango: including a female perspective in reproductive biology

TJ Orr, M Burns, K Hawkes… - Integrative and …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Like many scientific disciplines, the field of reproductive biology is subject to biases in
terminology and research foci. For example, females are often described as coy and passive …

Reproduction has immediate effects on female mortality, but no discernible lasting physiological impacts: A test of the disposable soma theory

SE Mitchell, M Simpson, L Coulet, S Gouedard… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
The disposable soma theory (DST) posits that organisms age and die because of a direct
trade-off in resource allocation between reproduction and somatic maintenance. DST …

Oxidative stress is a potential cost of breeding in male and female northern elephant seals

JT Sharick, JP Vazquez‐Medina, RM Ortiz… - Functional …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
The trade‐off between current reproductive effort and survival is a key concept of life‐history
theory. A variety of studies support the existence of this trade‐off, but the underlying …