ArticleEcology and evolution2020
Empirical patterns of environmental variation favor adaptive transgenerational plasticity.
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- A short pre-conception bout of predation risk affects both children and grandchildren.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Weak transgenerational effects of ancestral nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities on offspring phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of plant research · 2023Article
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- Exploring links between climatic predictability and the evolution of within- and transgenerational plasticity.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Effects of parental drought on offspring fitness vary among populations of a crop wild relative.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Transcriptional memory of gene expression across generations participates in transgenerational plasticity of field pennycress in response to cadmium stress.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Precipitation predictability affects intra- and trans-generational plasticity and causes differential selection on root traits ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- DNA Methylation Correlates With Responses of ExperimentalFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Innate preference hierarchies coupled with adult experience, rather than larval imprinting or transgenerational acclimation, determine host plant use inEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Transgenerational Plasticity in Flower Color Induced by Caterpillars.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Combining information from parental and personal experiences: Simple processes generate diverse outcomes.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Effects of parental environment on offspring traits have been well known for decades. Interest in this transgenerational form of phenotypic plasticity has recently surged due to advances in our understanding of its mechanistic basis. Theoretical research has simultaneously advanced by predicting the environmental conditions that should favor the adaptive evolution of transgenerational plasticity. Yet whether such conditions actually exist in nature remains largely unexplored. Here, using long-term climate data, we modeled optimal levels of transgenerational plasticity for an organism with a one-year life cycle at a spatial resolution of 4 km
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