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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Parental effects"”.
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Proximate and Ultimate Consequences of Stressed-Induced Maternal, Paternal, and Joint Parental Effects in a Changing World
<p>Parental experience can alter the developmental and rearing environments of offspring, resulting in parental effects on offspring traits. I addressed the consequences of stress-induced maternal, paternal, and joint parental effects from both ultimate (ecological/evolutionary) and proximate …
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Role of Parental Care and Ontogenetic Diets Shifts in the Recruitment Variation of an Aquatic Predator
… DNA fingerprints were used to quantify parental effects on brood-specific contribution to fall recruitment in environments that differed in the presence of bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus , an important brood predator. Overall, the majority of fall recruits originated from the …
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Sex-specific aging in two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae: Effects of diet, social environment and predator-induced stress
… with predator odour and control. I found that parental effects were significant in the early developing stage, but not in later life stages. There was no significant inter-generational stress influence on adult lifespan and reproduction, and those of the offspring were strongly negatively …
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Genetic connectivity, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity of corals and anemones under thermal stress
… Lastly, I explore if parents can modulate parental effects to increase the thermal tolerance of their offspring over short time scales, using the estuarine anemone Nematostella vectensis. Indeed, I find parents exposed to increased temperatures quickly produce more thermally tolerant …
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Dads matter: causes and consequences of plasticity in paternal care
… is often debated. Transgenerational plasticity (parental effects) are a particularly potent form of plasticity that occurs when the environment experienced by a parent influences offspring phenotypes, and theory suggests that parental effects can increase the speed of directional evolution. …
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Consequences of avian parental incubation behavior for within-clutch variance in incubation temperature and offspring behavioral phenotypes
Parents can have large effects on their offspring by influencing the early developmental environment. In birds, a major way that parents can influence the early developmental environment is through egg incubation. Not only is incubation necessary for hatching success, but small changes of <1C in …
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Understanding Patterns of Phenotypic Variation in a Contemporary Population and Ancient Lineage of Fishes
… portion of phenotypic diversity in the wild, its effects can be obscured by environmental factors, which often also play a large role in determining individual phenotype. For traits relating to life history, which are highly associated with fitness and often greatly influenced by environmental …
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Qualitative and Quantitative Fitness Consequences of Advanced Maternal Age
<p>Parental age can affect offspring fitness across taxa and through various mechanisms. However, the effect(s) of advanced maternal age on offspring, particularly in insects, has not been comprehensively reviewed making it difficult to draw conclusions about the effects of advanced maternal age on …