ArticleNature ecology & evolution2018
Personal and transgenerational cues are nonadditive at the phenotypic and molecular level.
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- Vertical transmission of horizontally acquired social information in sticklebacks: implications for transgenerational plasticity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The legacy of predator threat shapes prey foraging behaviour.Oecologia · 2022Article
- Dormant plasticity of rotifer diapausing eggs in response to predator kairomones.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Paternal care effects outweigh gamete-mediated and personal environment effects during the transgenerational estimation of risk in fathead minnows.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offers integrative insights into the role of space, time and the environment for gene expression and behaviour.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Insects Provide Unique Systems to Investigate How Early-Life Experience Alters the Brain and Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Combining information from parental and personal experiences: Simple processes generate diverse outcomes.PloS one · 2021Article
- The information provided by the absence of cues: insights from Bayesian models of within and transgenerational plasticity.Oecologia · 2020Review
- Sex-specific plasticity across generations I: Maternal and paternal effects on sons and daughters.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- Neurogenomic insights into paternal care and its relation to territorial aggression.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Thermal cues drive plasticity of desiccation resistance in montane salamanders with implications for climate change.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The role of variation and plasticity in parental care during the adaptive radiation of three-spine sticklebacks.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
Organisms can gain information about their environment from their ancestors, their parents or their own personal experience. 'Cue integration' models often start with the simplifying assumption that information from different sources is additive. Here, we test key assumptions and predictions of cue integration theory at both the phenotypic and molecular level in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). We show that regardless of whether cues about predation risk were provided by their father or acquired through personal experience, sticklebacks produced the same set of predator-adapted phenotypes. Moreover, there were nonadditive effects of personal and paternal experience: animals that received cues from both sources resembled animals that received cues from a single source. A similar pattern was detected at the molecular level: there was a core set of genes that were differentially expressed in the brains of offspring regardless of whether risk was experienced by their father, themselves or both. These results provide strong support for cue integration theory because they show that cues provided by parents and personal experience are comparable at both the phenotypic and molecular level, and draw attention to the importance of nonadditive responses to multiple cues.
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