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Heat‐induced maternal effects shape avian eggshell traits and embryo development and phenotype at high incubation temperatures [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Phenotypic plasticity is an important avenue by which organisms may persist in the face of rapid environmental change. Environmental cues experienced by the mother can also influence the phenotype of offspring, a form of plasticity called maternal ...
Alexander J. Hoffman +2 more
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Plastic maternal effects of social density on reproduction and fitness in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Environmental parental effects, also known as transgenerational plasticity, are widespread in plants and animals. Less well known is whether those effects contribute to maternal fitness in the same manner in different populations.
Samantha T. Levell +2 more
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eLife, 2022 Maternal genetic effects can be defined as the effect of a mother’s genotype on the phenotype of her offspring, independent of the offspring’s genotype.
Liang-Dar Hwang +2 more
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Population Density and Temperature Influence the Return on Maternal Investment in Wild House Mice
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In mammals, reproduction is influenced by sexual competition, temperature and food availability and these factors might be crucial already during early life.
Nina Gerber +4 more
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Fishes, 2023 To screen the quantitative trait loci (QTL) and genes related to the growth of Yellow River carp (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) after removing the maternal effect, we established a family of these carps.
Yuhan Chen +8 more
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Toxins, 2021 Cyanobacterial blooms are an omnipresent and well-known result of eutrophication and climate change in aquatic systems. Cyanobacteria produce a plethora of toxic secondary metabolites that affect humans, animals and ecosystems. Many cyanotoxins primarily
Anke Schwarzenberger +1 more
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Hatching Failure in Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) Is Linked to Maternal Identity
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Wood turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) have been suffering range-wide population declines since the 1900s. Most monitoring efforts of these turtles involve population surveys to assess population size and viability but relatively few investigate rates of ...
Thomas J. Duchak +2 more
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Head Shape Heritability in the Hungarian Meadow Viper Vipera ursinii rakosiensis
Animals, 2023 Understanding heritability patterns in functionally relevant traits is a cornerstone for evaluating their evolutionary potential and their role in local adaptation.
Duarte Oliveira +3 more
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Maternal transmission of bacterial microbiota during embryonic development in a viviparous lizard
Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 The maternal transmission of microbiota during embryonic development of vertebrates is still poorly understood. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA bacterial genes to determine the bacterial communities in the gastrointestinal tract ...
Nina Montoya-Ciriaco +7 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Populations with different densities often show genetically based differences in life histories. The divergent life histories could be driven by several agents of selection, one of which is variation in per‐capita food levels.
Anja Felmy, Jeff Leips, Joseph Travis
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