Coral reefs are globally threatened by climate change-related ocean warming and ocean
acidification (OA). To date, slow-response mechanisms such as genetic adaptation have …

Anticipatory parental effects (APE's) occur when parents adjust the phenotype of their
offspring to match the local environment, so as to increase the fitness of both parents and …

Understanding the evolutionary and ecological roles of'non-genetic'inheritance (NGI) is
daunting due to the complexity and diversity of epigenetic mechanisms. We draw on insights …

Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive
account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration …

There is now evidence that developmental influences have lifelong effects on cardiovascular
and metabolic function and that elements of the heritable or familial component of …

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 …

The tight association of the human body with trillions of colonizing microbes that we observe
today is the result of a long evolutionary history. Only very recently have we started to …

An organism's phenotype can be influenced by maternal cues and directly perceived
environmental cues, as well as by its genotype at polymorphic loci, which can be interpreted …

Abstract In 1961, Ernst Mayr published a highly influential article on the nature of causation
in biology, in which he distinguished between proximate and ultimate causes. Mayr argued …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …