Authors
Jennifer K Hellmann, Syed Abbas Bukhari, Jack Deno, Alison M Bell
Publication date
2020/12
Journal
Journal of Animal Ecology
Volume
89
Issue
12
Pages
2788-2799
Description
- Intergenerational plasticity or parental effects—when parental environments alter the phenotype of future generations—can influence how organisms cope with environmental change. An intriguing, underexplored possibility is that sex—of both the parent and the offspring—plays an important role in driving the evolution of intergenerational plasticity in both adaptive and non‐adaptive ways.
- Here, we evaluate the potential for sex‐specific parental effects in a freshwater population of three‐spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus by independently and jointly manipulating maternal and paternal experiences and separately evaluating their phenotypic effects in sons versus daughters. We tested the adaptive hypothesis that daughters are more responsive to cues from their mother, whereas sons are more responsive to cues from their father.
- We exposed mothers, fathers or both parents to visual cues of predation …
Scholar articles
JK Hellmann, SA Bukhari, J Deno, AM Bell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020
JK Hellmann, SA Bukhari, J Deno, AM Bell - bioRxiv, 2019
JK Hellmann, ER Carlson, AM Bell - bioRxiv, 2019
JK Hellmann, SA Bukhari, J Deno, AM Bell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019