ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2018
Testing hypotheses for maternal effects in Daphnia magna.
Article in Journal of evolutionary biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness.Ecology · 2025Article
- Maternal effects in the model system Daphnia: the ecological past meets the epigenetic future.Heredity · 2025Review
- Variable stressor exposure shapes fitness within and across generations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Ancestral environment determines the current reaction to ultraviolet radiation in Daphnia magna.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Parasite resistance and parasite tolerance: insights into transgenerational immune priming in an invertebrate host.Biology letters · 2022Article
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- Maternal Responses and Adaptive Changes to Environmental Stress via Chronic Nanomaterial Exposure: Differences in Inter and Transgenerational Interclonal Broods ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Genome-wide methylation is modified by caloric restriction in Daphnia magna.BMC genomics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Maternal effects are widely observed, but their adaptive nature remains difficult to describe and interpret. We investigated adaptive maternal effects in a clone of the crustacean Daphnia magna, experimentally varying both maternal age and maternal food and subsequently varying food available to offspring. We had two main predictions: that offspring in a food environment matched to their mothers should fare better than offspring in unmatched environments, and that offspring of older mothers would fare better in low food environments. We detected numerous maternal effects, for example offspring of poorly fed mothers were large, whereas offspring of older mothers were both large and showed an earlier age at first reproduction. However, these maternal effects did not clearly translate into the predicted differences in reproduction. Thus, our predictions about adaptive maternal effects in response to food variation were not met in this genotype of Daphnia magna.
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