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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The Effect of Maternal Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation on Cognition and Mood during Pregnancy and Postpartum in Indonesia: A Randomized Trial [PDF]
, 2012 Maternal caregiving capacity, which is affected in part by cognition and mood, is crucial for the health of mothers and infants. Few interventions aim to improve maternal and infant health through improving such capacity.
Shankar, Anuraj H. +4 more
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Males influence maternal effects that promote sexual selection : a quantitative genetic experiment with dung beetles Onthophagus taurus [PDF]
, 2003 Recently, doubt has been cast on studies supporting good genes sexual selection by the suggestion that observed genetic benefits for offspring may be confounded by differential maternal allocation.
Simmons, Leigh +11 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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Prenatal maternal effects on body condition score, female fertility, and milk yield of dairy cows [PDF]
, 2007 In this study, maternal effects were described as age of dam at first and second calving, first-lactation body condition score (BCS) of the dam during gestation, and milk yield of the dam.
Brotherstone, S. +5 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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The influence of maternal effects on indirect benefits associated with polyandry [PDF]
, 2010 Despite numerous and diverse theoretical models for the indirect benefits of polyandry, empirical support is mixed. One reason for the difficulty in detecting indirect benefits of polyandry may be that these are subtle and are mediated by environmental ...
House, Clarissa M. +14 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Environmentally induced transgenerational plasticity can increase success of progeny and thereby be adaptive if progeny experiences the similarly parental environment.
Kenian Li +4 more
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Variation in egg size and offspring phenotype among and within seven Arctic charr morphs
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Maternal effects have the potential to alter early developmental processes of offspring and contribute to adaptive diversification. Egg size is a major contributor to offspring phenotype, which can influence developmental trajectories and potential ...
Samantha V. Beck +6 more
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Journal of Lipid Research, 2005 Maternal effects on offspring phenotypes occur because mothers in many species provide an environment for their developing young. Although these factors are correctly “environmental” with respect to the offspring genome, their variance may have both a ...
Joseph P. Jarvis +5 more
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