ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal-stress effects on offspring phenotype.
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- An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Mechanisms and Multigenerational Consequences of Transgenerational Plasticity.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2019Article
- Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal-stress effects on offspring phenotype.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- The influence of maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype in high- and low-risk environments.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
It is well established that circulating maternal stress hormones (glucocorticoids, GCs) can alter offspring phenotype. There is also a growing body of empirical work, within ecology and evolution, indicating that maternal GCs link the environment experienced by the mother during gestation with changes in offspring phenotype. These changes are considered to be adaptive if the maternal environment matches the offspring's environment and maladaptive if it does not. While these ideas are conceptually sound, we lack a testable framework that can be used to investigate the fitness costs and benefits of altered offspring phenotypes across relevant future environments. We present error management theory as the foundation for a framework that can be used to assess the adaptive potential of maternal stress hormones on offspring phenotype across relevant postnatal scenarios. To encourage rigorous testing of our framework, we provide field-testable hypotheses regarding the potential adaptive role of maternal stress across a diverse array of taxa and life histories, as well as suggestions regarding how our framework might provide insight into past, present, and future research. This perspective provides an informed lens through which to design and interpret experiments on the effects of maternal stress, provides a framework for predicting and testing variation in maternal stress across and within taxa, and also highlights how rapid environmental change that induces maternal stress may lead to evolutionary traps.
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