1. In the context of global change, modifications in winter conditions may disrupt the
seasonal phenology patterns of organisms, modify the synchrony of closely interacting …

Stress is ubiquitous and thus, not surprisingly, many hypotheses and models have been
created to better study the role stress plays in life. Stress spans fields and is found in the …

The view of maternal effects (nongenetic maternal environmental influence on offspring
phenotype) has changed from one of distracting complications in evolutionary genetics to an …

Parental experience alters survival-related phenotypes of offspring in both adaptive and
nonadaptive ways, yielding rapid inter-and transgenerational fitness effects. Yet, fitness …

The environment that parents experience can influence their reproductive output and their
offspring's fitness via parental effects. Perceived predation risk can affect both parent and …

Highlights•Prenatal environment has organizing effects on developmental trajectories.•Data
on prenatal hormone-mediated maternal effects are inconsistent.•Hormonal effects should …

A shift from the traditional perspective that maternal stress is invariably costly has instigated
recent interest into its adaptive role in offspring sex allocation. Stress generated by social …

Background: Stress experienced by mothers during pregnancy can have both immediate
and long-term effects on child development, potentially mediated by breastfeeding. Aim …

Highlights•Embryos across taxa can perceive and learn external sounds.•Emerging
evidence show that prenatal acoustic signals can program development.•Prenatal sound …

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 …