healthUpdated: Jun 24, 2020 11:57 ISTA recent research provides insight into how males influence their mates’ health, growth and fertility. The animal research shows that mating with sterile males early in life increases female growth and subsequent reproductive output, but reduces female lifespan. Together with colleagues from the Department of Anatomy and UNSW Sydney, Dr Garratt aimed to determine which components of interactions with males influence female life-history and ageing. “It is evident that males influence their mates’ lifespan, growth and health. For example, mice go through pseudo pregnancy after mating with sterile mice, while humans do not, so there is a clear physiological response to mating in mice that may not be translatable to humans.

Source: Hindustan Times June 24, 2020 06:22 UTC