{"id":6660,"date":"2019-04-03T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:38:47","slug":"increased-competition-drives-males-to-age-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/increased-competition-drives-males-to-age-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased competition drives males to age faster <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.0286\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0April 3, 2019 | 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=19804\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nIf we fall apart as we age because we allocate so much energy to trying to reproduce that we don\u2019t look after our bodies, then males that have to compete more vigorously should age faster. In this study of a cricket population in a Spanish meadow where years vary in the relative numbers of males and females, males in years with more competition did age faster. Even male insects pay the costs of reproductive competition in later life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> David Fisher, McMaster University &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fished3@mcmaster.ca\" target=\"_blank\">fished3@mcmaster.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0April 3, 2019 | 17:01 EDT (Brief from the Royal Society) If we fall apart as we age because we allocate so much energy to trying to reproduce that we don\u2019t look after our bodies, then males that have to compete more vigorously should age faster. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6665,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}