When is a maternal effect adaptive

By D. Marshall, T. Uller. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in the perennial Plantago lanceolata (2014, background): “As adaptive transgenerational plasticity requires some degree of predictability of environmental conditions across generations (Marshall and Uller 2007), it could be restricted to species with limited seed dispersal and dormancy, and to species growing in suffi ciently stable environments.”
Growth of Male White-Tailed Deer: Consequences of Maternal Effects (2009, background): “…that females must balance the allocation of current reproductive expenditures with their probability of survival, as well as the potential for subsequent reproductive events to occur when better conditions exist (Adams 2005; Marshall and Uller 2007; Stearns 1992; Trivers and Willard 1973).”
Transgenerational plasticity and environmental stress: do paternal effects act as a conduit or a buffer? (2016, background): “For example, mothers may manipulate offspring phenotypes to increase their own, rather than their offspring’s fitness, sometimes to the offspring’s detriment (Cunningham & Russell 2000; Marshall & Uller 2007).”
How to balance the offspring quality–quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable (2011, positive): “…requirements to transgenerational phenotypic plasticity, which is the subject of this study, our results confirm that the evolution of plasticity requires sufficiently reliable cues available to mothers to enable her to predict environmental conditions of her offspring (Marshall and Uller 2007).”
The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects (2014, background): “Our aim here is to quantify adaptive maternal effects (sensu Marshall & Uller 2007) under simple models of environmental change and then investigate how additive genetic variance, phenotypic plasticity and the maternal effects combine to underpin phenotypic evolution.”
Testing population differentiation in plant species - how important are environmental maternal effects (2010, background): “…eff ects that are not directly mediated by maternal provisioning contribute to transgenerational plasticity that may be adaptive if the off spring environment is predictable and similar to the maternal environment (Galloway and Etterson 2007, Marshall and Uller 2007, Rhode and Juntilla 2008).”
Adaptive trans‐generational phenotypic plasticity and the lack of an experimental control in reciprocal match/mismatch experiments (2016, positive): “Experimentally demonstrating such adaptive trans-generational plasticity has proven challenging (cf. Marshall & Uller 2007; Nettle & Bateson 2015).”
Transgenerational plasticity in marine sticklebacks: maternal effects mediate impacts of a warming ocean (2014, background): “Thus, selection acting via parental effects is a complex interplay between non-genetic and genetic inheritance as well as environmental dependency (Marshall & Uller 2007), making predictions regarding the direction of evolutionary change challenging.”
Nongenetic Inheritance and Its Evolutionary Implications (2009, background): “Nonetheless, there is considerable potential for parent-offspring conflicts over nongenetic inheritance (Lacey 1998, Marshall & Uller 2007, Uller 2008).”
Adaptive parental effects: the importance of estimating environmental predictability and offspring fitness appropriately (2014, methodology): “Consistent with general life history theory (Stearns 1992), parents may respond to environmental change by reducing offspring fitness in order to increase the long term fitness returns that parents achieve (‘selfish parental effects’ sensu Marshall and Uller 2007).”
How climate change affects the seasonal ecology of insect parasitoids (2020, background): “Under conditions of environmental autocorrelation, transgenerational plasticity may be beneficial for the offspring, whereas an unpredictable environment should decrease its adaptive value (Marshall & Uller, 2007; Sgrò et al., 2016; Donelson et al., 2018).”