ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2016
Evolutionary genetics of maternal effects.
Article in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Separating direct, indirect and parent-of-origin genetic effects in the human population.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Epigenetics and individuality: from concepts to causality across timescales.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2025Review
- Maternal effects in the model system Daphnia: the ecological past meets the epigenetic future.Heredity · 2025Review
- Calcium Homeostasis Is Involved in the Modulation of Gene Expression by MSL2 in Imbalanced Genomes.Cells · 2024Article
- Parental Effect on Agronomic and Olive Oil Traits in Olive Progenies from Reciprocal Crosses.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Assessing the opportunity for selection to impact morphological traits in crosses between twoPeerJ · 2024Article
- Maternal patterns of inheritance alter transcript expression in eggs.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Taking quantitative genomics into the wild.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank.American journal of botany · 2022Article
- Maternal-Offspring Interactions: Reciprocally Coevolving Social Environments.The Journal of heredity · 2022Article
- When is Offspring Viability Fitness a Measure of Paternal Fitness and When is it not?The Journal of heredity · 2022Article
- Viviparous mothers impose stronger glucocorticoid-mediated maternal stress effects on their offspring than oviparous mothers.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Maternal genetic effects (MGEs), where genes expressed by mothers affect the phenotype of their offspring, are important sources of phenotypic diversity in a myriad of organisms. We use a single-locus model to examine how MGEs contribute patterns of heritable and nonheritable variation and influence evolutionary dynamics in randomly mating and inbreeding populations. We elucidate the influence of MGEs by examining the offspring genotype-phenotype relationship, which determines how MGEs affect evolutionary dynamics in response to selection on offspring phenotypes. This approach reveals important results that are not apparent from classic quantitative genetic treatments of MGEs. We show that additive and dominance MGEs make different contributions to evolutionary dynamics and patterns of variation, which are differentially affected by inbreeding. Dominance MGEs make the offspring genotype-phenotype relationship frequency dependent, resulting in the appearance of negative frequency-dependent selection, while additive MGEs contribute a component of parent-of-origin dependent variation. Inbreeding amplifies the contribution of MGEs to the additive genetic variance and, therefore enhances their evolutionary response. Considering evolutionary dynamics of allele frequency change on an adaptive landscape, we show that this landscape differs from the mean fitness surface, and therefore, under some condition, fitness peaks can exist but not be "available" to the evolving population.
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