title: Post-pubescent to mature fathers: increase in progeny quality?
abstract: In the mouse, offspring born from mature fathers exhibit better behavioural performances (for spontaneous activity in both sex and learning capacity in males) than those born from post-pubescent fathers. These behavioural variations are not accompanied by other obvious modifications. They could correspond to what has been observed in man relating to the results in a psychometric test undergone by male progeny born from very young to mature fathers. These data and those which show a decrease in mental performance in rats and human males born from mature to senescent fathers suggest the participation of some genetic factors in these phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Biologie de la Reproduction et du Développement, CHU de Bicêtre, Université Paris XI, Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Auroux
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Nawar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naguib
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lapaquellerie
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005220:Fathers; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D011594:Psychometrics; D051381:Rats; D012741:Sexual Maturation / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity