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Mating with immunised male mice affects the phenotype of adult progeny.
Reproduction (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jul 2020
Gerlinskaya Ludmila, Anisimova Margarita, Kontsevaya Galina, Maslennikova Svetlana, Romashchenko Alexander, Gong Yanli, Moshkin Yuri, Moshkin Mikhail
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The life-history theory suggests that parental experience of the environment is passed to offspring, which allows them to adapt to prevailing conditions. This idea is supported from the mother's side, but to a much less extent from the father's side. Here, we investigated the effect of immunising fathers on pre- and neonatal development and on immune and neuroendocrine phenotypes of their offspring in C57BL/6J...
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