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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"offspring development"”.
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Prenatal Influence of Slight Variations in Altitude: Hypoxia and Maternal Influences on Offspring Development
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Effect of a maternal inflammatory challenge during the preimplantation period on offspring development and phenotype
… and behavioural abnormalities in the adult offspring.<br/>Do other types of maternal challenge similarly impact on the developmental programme with long-lasting consequences? Infection and injury are common in everyday life and normally result in altered homeostasis and generation of an …
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Parents and children together (PaCT): a tri-directional examination of parental personality, adolescent traits, parenting, and context in affecting adolescent behavioural strengths and difficulties
… parental personality, parenting behaviour, and offspring developmental outcomes. However, no work yet has been done to synthesise the results, which is necessary to establish consistent results across studies and provide directions for new research on parental personality and offspring outcomes. …
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Maternal care in a highly precocial mammal, the guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus)
… should adjust costly nursing to their own and to offspring condition in order to allow optimal offspring development at minimal fitness costs to themselves. They may assess offspring condition by monitoring offspring appearance and solicitation intensity. Young should be selected to influence …
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A snapshot of color: Exploring the ecological and genetic basis of color variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans (chrysomelidae:cassidinae)
… C. alternans? 4) Do differences in fecundity or offspring survival differ as a function of parental color morph? 5) Does differential predation contribute to the maintenance of this polymorphism and do differences in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles (which might influence predator choice) …
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Navigating the night: spatial cognition, locomotor and ranging behaviour in Nycticebus species
… disperse as late as two years after birth. Offspring development and dispersal is rooted in the social interactions between family group members. The skills they acquire during this time help them to find and establish a suitable home range; skills like accessing essential food resources. In …
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Manipulating Embryonic Development and Endometrial Function in Ruminants
… leading to a lapse in our understanding of its development and function in cattle and other ruminants. The goal of the first study was to establish a protocol for developing primitive endoderm cultures and characterizing these cells. Bovine embryos were produced in vitro, and primitive endoderm …
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The Causes and Consequences of Complex Behavioral Trait Variation in a Resident Montane Bird
… expensive cognitive traits are impacted by developmental perturbations such as non-optimal developmental conditions (e.g. poor parental care, low-quality nest environment, etc.), but whether these same patterns are exhibited in natural populations is relatively unstudied. This dissertation …
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The neuroendocrine and molecular mechanisms underlying stress-induced maternal effects in the threespine stickleback
Non-genetic maternal effects occur when offspring phenotype is influenced non-genetically by a mother’s phenotype. Exposure of mothers to external stressors, for example, can influence the expression of a wide array of offspring traits essential for survival, including growth, morphology, and …