ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2016
Effects of mothers' and fathers' experience with predation risk on the behavioral development of their offspring in threespined sticklebacks.
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- Toward Understanding and Halting Legacies of Trauma.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
- Stronger Antipredatory Vigilance of Prey to Olfactory Cues From Injured Vulnerable Conspecifics.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Paternal response to novel predator exposure correlates with transgenerational response in offspring of threespined stickleback.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Legacies of salient environmental experiences-insights from chemosensation.Chemical senses · 2024Article
- Maternal effects, paternal effects, and their interactions in the freshwater snail Physa acuta.Oecologia · 2023Article
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- Vertical transmission of horizontally acquired social information in sticklebacks: implications for transgenerational plasticity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Predator-induced maternal effects determine adaptive antipredator behaviors via egg composition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Does parental angling selection affect the behavior or metabolism of brown trout parr?Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Nonlinear maternal effects on personality in a rodent species with fluctuating densities.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Sex-specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- The social construction of the social epigenome and the larger biological context.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2020Review
- Proximate causes and consequences of intergenerational influences of salient sensory experience.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2020Article
- Maternal stress has divergent effects on gene expression patterns in the brains of male and female threespine stickleback.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Why and how the early-life environment affects development of coping behaviours.Behavioral ecology and sociobiologyReview
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Abstract
Stressors experienced by parents can influence the behavioral development of their offspring. Here, we review recent studies in threespined sticklebacks (a species in which males are the sole providers of parental care) showing that when parents are exposed to an ecologically relevant stressor (predation risk), there are consequences for offspring. For example, female sticklebacks exposed to predation risk produce eggs with higher concentrations of cortisol, a stress hormone, and offspring with altered behavior and physiology. Male sticklebacks exposed to predation risk produce offspring that are less active, smaller, and in poorer condition. The precise mechanisms by which maternal and paternal experiences with predators affect offspring phenotypes are under investigation, and could include steroid hormones, olfactory cues and/or parental behavior. As in other species, some of the consequences of parental exposure to predation risk for offspring in sticklebacks might be adaptive, but depend on the stressor, the reliability of the parental and offspring environments and the evolutionary history of the population.
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