ArticleEvolution letters2019
The more you get, the more you give: Positive cascading effects shape the evolutionary potential of prenatal maternal investment.
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- Consistent and flexible maternal effects: how the environments of a mother influence the offspring phenotype.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Mothers in a cooperatively breeding bird increase investment per offspring at the pre-natal stage when they will have more help with post-natal care.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Increased male-induced harm in response to female-limited selection: interactive effects between intra- and interlocus sexual conflict?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Maternal effects do not resolve the paradox of stasis in birth weight in a wild red deer populaton.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Cascading indirect genetic effects in a clonal vertebrate.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
- Evolution of epigenetic transmission when selection acts on fecundity versus viability.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2020Review
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Abstract
Maternal effects are prevalent in nature and significantly contribute to variation in phenotypic trait expression. However, little attention has been paid to the factors shaping variation in the traits mediating these effects (maternal effectors). Specific maternal effectors are often not identified, and typically they are assumed to be inherited in an additive genetic and autosomal manner. Given that these effectors can cause long-lasting effects on offspring phenotype, it is likely that they may also affect themselves in the next generation. Although the existence of such cascading maternal effects has been discussed and modeled, empirical examples of such effects are rare, let alone quantitative estimates of their strength and evolutionary consequences. Here, we demonstrate that the investment a mother makes in her eggs positively affects the egg investment of her daughters. Through reciprocally crossing artificially selected lines for divergent prenatal maternal investment in Japanese quail (
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