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Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 Hybrid effects are often exhibited asymmetrically between reciprocal families. One way this could happen is if silencing of one parent’s allele occurs in one lineage but not the other, which could affect the phenotypes of the hybrids asymmetrically by ...
Joshua D Gibson +3 more
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Parental and offspring larval diets interact to influence life-history traits and infection with dengue virus in Aedes aegypti [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The environmental conditions experienced by parents can influence offspring phenotype along with the conditions experienced by offspring. These parental effects are clear in organisms that display parental care and are less clear in other organisms. Here,
Kylie Zirbel +2 more
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Spider mite mothers adjust reproduction and sons' alternative reproductive tactics to immigrating alien conspecifics [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Maternal effects on environmentally induced alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are poorly understood but likely to be selected for if mothers can reliably predict offspring environments.
Peter Schausberger +2 more
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The Effects of Parental ADHD Symptoms on Parenting Behaviors
Health, 2017 Adults suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD) often display high levels of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. These symptoms might interfere with skills that are necessary for optimal parenting such as consequent and emotionally responsive behavior towards the child.
Friedrich, Anja +3 more
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The Effect of Perceived Parent–Child Facial Resemblance on Parents’ Trait Anxiety: The Moderating Effect of Parents’ Gender [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Father-child facial resemblance is an important cue for men to evaluate paternity. Previous studies found that fathers' perceptions of low facial resemblance with offspring lead to low confidence of paternity. Fathers' uncertainty of paternity could cause psychological stress and anxiety, which, after a long time, may further turn into trait anxiety ...
Yu, Quanlei +5 more
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Parental effects and provisioning under drought and low phosphorus stress in common bean
Food and Energy Security, 2020 Low soil fertility and drought are primary constraints for crop production and food security in many developing nations. Since smallholder farmers often collect seed for the next year's crop from plants grown with abiotic stress, it is important to ...
Claire Lorts +2 more
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Maternal patterns of inheritance alter transcript expression in eggs
BMC Genomics, 2023 Background Modifications to early development can lead to evolutionary diversification. The early stages of development are under maternal control, as mothers produce eggs loaded with nutrients, proteins and mRNAs that direct early embryogenesis ...
Nathan D. Harry, Christina Zakas
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Perceptions of parental behavior with regard to parents’ gender and respondents’ age and gender [PDF]
Psihologija, 2010 The findings of the research into the perceived parental behavior provide contrasting data as to the existence and the nature of differences in the perception of parental behavior based on parents’ gender and respondents’ gender.
Opsenica-Kostić Jelena +1 more
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Genetic and Social Transmission of Parental Sex Roles in Zebra Finch Families
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Parental care plays a central, reinforcing role in the evolution of sex roles and its development is often reported to be driven by genetic, rather than environmental effects.
Boglárka Morvai +3 more
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Substitution Effects in Parental Investments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more in observable marital and post-marital transfers as partial
Brandt, Loren, Siow, Aloysius, Wang, Hui
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