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Maternal Effects and Parent-Offspring Conflict [PDF]

Evolution, 2017
AbstractMaternal effects can provide offspring with reliable information about the environment they are likely to experience, but also offer scope for maternal manipulation of young when interests diverge between parents and offspring. To predict the impact and outcome of parent-offspring conflict, we model the evolution of maternal effects on local ...
Kuijper, Bram, Johnstone, Rufus A.
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Home Visiting and Maternal Depression: Seizing the Opportunities to Help Mothers and Young Children [PDF]

, 2011
Outlines the prevalence of maternal depression, treatment, and effect on children; mothers' views of depression; guidance on how home visiting programs could better identify and address the needs of depressed mothers; and lessons from existing ...
Amelia Hawkins, Olivia Golden, William Beardslee   +2 more
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Effects of inclusion of the blend of essential oils, organic acids, curcumin, tannins, vitamin E, and zinc in the maternal diet, and of incubation temperature on early and late development of quail

Poultry Science
: The maternal diet and egg incubation temperature are some of the factors that can influence the embryonic development and performance of the newly chicks at 15 d of age.
Keila Mileski Pontes, Ana Paula Del Vesco, Angélica de Souza Khatlab, José Wellington Rodrigues Lima Júnior, Gabriela Hernandes Cangianelli, Jessica Carolina Camargo López, Tádia Emanuele Stivanin, Marisa Silva Bastos, Thaís Pacheco Santana, Eliane Gasparino   +9 more
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Association of Mothers' Perception of Neighborhood Quality and Maternal Resilience with Risk of Preterm Birth. [PDF]

, 2015
We examined the associations of mothers' perception of neighborhood quality and maternal resilience with risk of preterm birth and whether maternal resilience moderated the effect of neighborhood quality perception.
Bhatia, Namrata, Chao, Shin Margaret, Crespi, Catherine M, Higgins, Chandra, Patel, Suvas   +4 more
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The Effect of Food Concentration on the Juvenile Somatic Growth Rate of Body Length, Fecundity and the Production of Resting Eggs by Moina brachiata (Crustacea: Cladocera) Single Females [PDF]

Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2012
The study addresses the effect of different food concentrations of green alga Chlorella vulgaris on the life cycle parameters (the body length, specific juvenile somatic growth rate of body length, the number of offspring in the first clutch of ...
Tatiana S. Lopatina, Egor S. Zadereev
doaj  

Effects of Descendent Phenotypic Diversity Mediated by Ancestor Environmental Variation on Population Productivity of a Clonal Plant

Diversity, 2022
Phenotypic variation of individuals within populations can be influenced by not only genetic diversity and environmental variation experienced by these individuals but also environmental variation experienced by their parents.
Yu Jin, Jin-Song Chen, Fang-Li Luo, Lin Huang, Ning-Fei Lei, Fei-Hai Yu   +5 more
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On the origin of trisomy 21 Down syndrome [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Down syndrome, characterized by an extra chromosome 21 is the most common genetic cause for congenital malformations and learning disability.
Hultén, Maj A., Iwarsson, Erik, Jonsson, Anna Maria, Papadogiannakis, Nikos, Patel, Suketu D., Tankimanova, Maira, Westgren, Magnus   +6 more
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Maternal Effects of Habitats Induce Stronger Salt Tolerance in Early-Stage Offspring of Glycyrrhiza uralensis from Salinized Habitats Compared with Those from Non-Salinized Habitats

Biology
(1) Wild Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch (licorice) seeds from different habitats are often mixed for cultivation. However, differences in the responses of seeds from different habitats to salt at the early-stage offspring stage are unclear.
Junjun Gu, Shaoxuan Yao, Miao Ma
doaj   +1 more source

Non-Mendelian Dominant Maternal Effects Caused by CRISPR/Cas9 Transgenic Components in Drosophila melanogaster

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2016
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has revolutionized genomic editing. The Cas9 endonuclease targets DNA via an experimentally determined guide RNA (gRNA). This results in a double-strand break at the target site .
Chun-Chieh Lin, Christopher J. Potter
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Effects of community participation on improving uptake of skilled care for maternal and newborn health: a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Despite a broad consensus that communities should be actively involved in improving their own health, evidence for the effect of community participation on specific health outcomes is limited.
Marston, Cicely, McGowan, CR, Portela, Anayda, Renedo, Alicia   +3 more
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