Maternal effects can play an important role in a diversity of ecological and evolutionary
processes such as population dynamics, phenotypic plasticity, niche construction, life-history …

Epigenetics, the transgenerational transfer of phenotypic characters without modification of
gene sequence, is a burgeoning area of study in many disciplines of biology. However, the …

Although mothers influence the traits of their offspring in many ways beyond the
transmission of genes, it remains unclear how important such 'maternal effects' are to …

Summary 1 Genetic and environmental maternal effects can play an important role in the
evolutionary dynamics of a population: they may have a substantial impact on the rate and …

Recently, the importance of the female to population dynamics—especially her non‐genetic
contribution to offspring fitness or maternal effect—has received much attention in studies of …

Predation risk has long been known to exert a strong influence on behavior, but no study to
date has determined whether predators influence offspring antipredator behavior via …

Imprinted genes are expressed either from the maternally or paternally inherited copy only,
and they play a key role in regulating complex biological processes, including offspring …

Heritable maternal effects have important consequences for the evolutionary dynamics of
phenotypic traits under selection, but have only rarely been tested for or quantified in …

Consistent individual differences in behaviour, and behavioural correlations within and
across contexts, are referred to as animal personalities. These patterns of variation have …

Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a defining feature of gonochorous animals and dioecious plants,
but the evolution of SD from an initially monomorphic genome presents a conundrum …