ArticleBiology letters2015
Sex-specific maternal effects in a viviparous fish.
Article in Biology letters, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The interplay between sperm-mediated and care-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks.Animal behaviour · 2021Article
- Different maternal investment strategies for male and female calves in a polygynous mammal.Current zoology · 2019Article
- The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2018Article
- Maternal-by-environment but not genotype-by-environment interactions in a fish without parental care.Heredity · 2018Article
- Inbreeding depression does not increase after exposure to a stressful environment: a test using compensatory growth.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Age-related changes and selective disappearance shape variation in bold-shy continuum in guppies.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Mothers vary in their effects on their offspring, but studies of variation in maternal effects rarely ask whether differences between mothers are consistent for sons and daughters. Here, we analysed maternal effects in the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki for development time and adult size of sons and daughters, and a primary male sexual character (gonopodium length). We found substantial maternal effects on all traits, most notably for gonopodium length. There were significant correlations within each sex for maternal effects on different traits, indicative of trade-offs between development rate and adult size. By contrast, there was no evidence of any consistency in maternal effects on sons and daughters. This suggests that the evolution of maternal effects will follow independent trajectories dependent on sex-specific selection on offspring. Importantly, failure to recognize the sex-specific nature of maternal effects in this population would have substantially underestimated the extent of their variation between mothers.
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