ArticleEcology and evolution2017
Bigger is better: changes in body size explain a maternal effect of food on offspring disease resistance.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness.Ecology · 2025Article
- Daphnia magna egg piRNA cluster expression profiles change as mothers age.BMC genomics · 2022Article
- Sequential infection ofParasitology · 2021Article
- DNA methylation differs extensively between strains of the same geographical origin and changes with age in Daphnia magna.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2021Article
- Disentangling non-specific and specific transgenerational immune priming components in host-parasite interactions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Genome-wide methylation is modified by caloric restriction in Daphnia magna.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Maternal Stress Reduces the Susceptibility of Root-Knot Nematodes toJournal of nematology · 2019Article
- Testing hypotheses for maternal effects in Daphnia magna.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Disease spread in age structured populations with maternal age effects.Ecology letters · 2017Article
- Bigger is better: changes in body size explain a maternal effect of food on offspring disease resistance.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Maternal effects triggered by changes in the environment (e.g., nutrition or crowding) can influence the outcome of offspring-parasite interactions, with fitness consequences for the host and parasite. Outside of the classic example of antibody transfer in vertebrates, proximate mechanisms have been little studied, and thus, the adaptive significance of maternal effects on infection is not well resolved. We sought to determine why food-stressed mothers give birth to offspring that show a low rate of infection when the crustacean
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