... to higher prenatal thyroid hormones can lead to accelerated cellular ageing in wild great tits, measured through telomere length. Developmental programming Thyroxine Triiodothyronine Ageing Mitochondria Metabolism Oxidative stress Maternal effects Academy of Finland http://dx.doi.org...

... mediating costs of reproduction and maternal effects remain poorly understood. Studies examining the effects of environmental stressors on a female's physiological state and body condition during reproduction, as well as the physiological condition of offspring, have yielded equivocal results. Mitochondrial...

... scripta but act on different points of the sex-determining pathway. Steroid hormone Fluctuating temperature Sexual differentiation Intron retention Maternal effects National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 2114111 Beta Lambda Phi Sigma Biological...

.... Maternal effects Embryo growth Oxidative stress Maternally derived hormones Cleidoic eggs of vertebrates are relatively sealed environments with limited exchange of materials with the external environment. Embryo development and the sustainment of its physiological processes are therefore based...

...-effects models using lme4 . J. Stat. Softw. 67 , 1 - 48 . 10.18637/jss.v067.i01 Bernardo , J. ( 1996 ). Maternal effects in animal ecology . Am. Zool. 36 , 83 - 105 . 10.1093/icb/36.2.83 Bocco , B. M. L. C. , Fernandes , G. W. , Fonseca , T. L. and Bianco...

... not be a sufficient cue to produce substantial changes in behavioral and physiological stress responses in offspring in natural populations. Coping styles Development GCs Maternal effects Maternal hormones Tamiasciurus hudsonicus Table 3. Full results of HPA axis dynamics models...

... by maternal effects in non-overlapping gametic cohorts. We also compared larvae from North Carolina (a genetically distinct population with higher baseline thermal tolerance) and Massachusetts parents, and observed that larvae from heat-exposed Massachusetts parents had thermal thresholds comparable to those...

... treatment had a positive effect on body mass growth at 30 days after hatching and immune response at sexual maturity, while egg testosterone treatment positively influenced immune response at fledging and courtship behaviour in sexually mature male offspring. Maternal effects are known to modulate offspring...

... of how mothers regulate circulating THs during breeding, as well as the embryos’ role in converting maternal T 4 to its biologically active T 3 form during development. Maternal effects are the non-genetic influences of a mother on her progeny and are thought to be adaptive ( Moore et al., 2019...

.... and Bolton , T. F. ( 2007 ). Effects of egg size on the development time of non-feeding larvae . Biol. Bull.   212 , 6 - 11 . 10.2307/25066575 Marshall , D. J. and Uller , T. ( 2007 ). When is a maternal effect adaptive?   Oikos   116 , 1957 - 1963 . 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16203...

...Naim M. Bautista; Amélie Crespel; Janna Crossley; Pamela Padilla; Warren Burggren ABSTRACT Transgenerational inheritance from both parental lines can occur by genetic and epigenetic inheritance. Maternal effects substantially influence offspring survival and fitness. However, investigation...

...Nicole A. Campbell; Rachel Angles; Rachel M. Bowden; Joseph M. Casto; Ryan T. Paitz ABSTRACT Maternal transfer of steroids to eggs can elicit permanent effects on offspring phenotype. Although testosterone was thought to be a key mediator of maternal effects in birds, we now know that vertebrate...

.../ Summary: Experimental increases in glucocorticoids in breeding female North American red squirrels affects offspring postnatal growth but not levels of oxidative damage and antioxidants or telomere lengths. Developmental plasticity Life history Maternal effects Tamiasciurus hudsonicus...

... antibodies and testosterone) provides little evidence for strong or long-term synergistic or antagonistic effects on offspring phenotype. Multivariate egg Maternal effects Maternal antibodies Yolk testosterone Taeniopygia guttata Eggs have a complex maternally derived composition...

... that the effects of increased exposure of the embryo to maternal androgens take place either before this early conversion or are mediated by these metabolites with an as yet unknown function, opening new avenues for understanding hormone-mediated maternal effects in vertebrates. * Author for correspondence...

..., an understanding of the mechanisms underlying these effects is lagging and is crucial to appreciating the significance of this maternal effect. In the present study, we sought to better understand maternal stress effects by examining the potential for embryonic regulation of corticosterone exposure, determining...

.... ( 2008 ). Hormone-mediated maternal effects in birds: mechanisms matter but what do we know of them?   Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci.   363 , 1647 - 1661 . 10.1098/rstb.2007.0007 Groothuis , T. G. G. , Müller , W. , Von Engelhardt , N. , Carere , C. and Eising , C...

... markers in the yolk, liver and brain, and embryo morphology in the yellow-legged gull. Bivariate mixed models Larus michahellis Maternal effects Morphological traits Oxidative status Vitamin E Organisms are exposed to oxidizing agents originating from the external environment and also...

... Environmental sex determination Maternal effects Reproductive investment Sex allocation Thermal ecology Thermoregulation The parental environment is a key driver of offspring phenotypic variation ( Mousseau and Dingle, 1991 ; Bernardo, 1996 ; Bonduriansky and Day, 2009 ). These non-genetic...

... corticosterone level in pregnant aspic vipers, which may subsequently influence offspring growth. Allostasis Dehydration Ectotherms Glucocorticoids Maternal effects Reproductive effort Allostasis integrates an organism's functional responses to predictable and/or unpredictable environmental...