"This study opens new avenues for understanding the intricate balance between reproduction, damage repair, and lifespan. The sex-specific nature of germline regulation challenges existing paradigms ...

"Our work suggests that vitamin D signaling could influence the longevity of other vertebrates, including humans." The discovery that germ cells affect male and female longevity in opposing ways is an ...

Oocyte maturation in vertebrates encompasses the transition from a growth-arrested germ cell to a fertilisation-competent egg through a tightly regulated sequence of meiotic events. Fully grown ...

The hybrid freshwater fish actually reproduces exclusively female clones, doing so for much longer than scientists thought ...

Researchers have found that germ cells, which develop into eggs and sperm, drive sex-dependent differences in lifespan in vertebrates. Female and male germ cells increase and reduce lifespan, ...

Sex is a tricky business, evolutionarily speaking. One problem is that sexually reproducing organisms must suffer the considerable faff of securing a mate (for the males of some species, the struggle ...

The study revealed unexpected and sex-specific effects of germline regulation on longevity and somatic repair in vertebrates. Contrary to classical evolutionary theories, it turns out that changing ...