Climate change is increasing global water temperatures, and by altering temperatures, is
subsequently impacting aquatic life, particularly ectothermic fish. When mothers encounter …

Into the next century, global climate change models predict chronic and acute thermal
fluctuations to increase in intensity and frequency, especially in freshwater environments …

Climate change increases the frequency and severity of environmental stressors in aquatic
habitats including elevated temperatures and hypoxia. The maternal match hypothesis …

Elevated temperatures resulting from climate change are expected to disproportionately
affect ectotherms given their biological function has a direct link to environmental …

Climate change is leading to altered temperature regimes which are impacting aquatic life,
particularly for ectothermic fish. The impacts of environmental stress can be translated …

Predicted climate change-induced increases in heat waves and hypoxic events will have
profound effects on fishes, yet the capacity of parents to alter offspring phenotype via non …

The maternal match hypothesis predicts that maternal exposure to a stressor may help
prepare offspring to cope with the same disturbance in later life. Although there is support for …

Assessing the intergenerational effects of stress is an important factor in determining how
populations will respond to changing environments. Stressful maternal environments often …

In this thesis I explore the topic of maternal effects, and namely the effects of maternal stress
on various aspects of offspring phenotype. More specifically, I examine how chronically …

Parents may confer information about stressful environmental conditions to their offspring,
through altered transfer of endocrine and cellular stress response signals, with lasting …