Revisiting mechanisms and functions of prenatal hormone-mediated maternal effects using avian species as a model

TGG Groothuis, BY Hsu, N Kumar… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Maternal effects can adaptively modulate offspring developmental trajectories in variable but
predictable environments. Hormone synthesis is sensitive to environmental factors, and …

Who listens to mother? A whole‐family perspective on the evolution of maternal hormone allocation

K Bebbington, TGG Groothuis - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Maternal effects, or the influence of maternal environment and phenotype on offspring
phenotype, may allow mothers to fine‐tune their offspring's developmental trajectory and …

Maintenance costs of male dominance and sexually antagonistic selection in the wild

Z Boratyński, E Koskela, T Mappes, SC Mills… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in dominance status determines male mating and reproductive success, but
natural selection for male dominance can be detrimental or antagonistic for female …

Genetic variation in maternal yolk testosterone allocation predicts female mating decisions in Japanese quail

D Ledecka, M Zeman, M Okuliarova - Animal behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Maternal reproductive effort can be adjusted through the transfer of hormones into the eggs,
where they influence embryo development, mediating short-and long-term maternal effects …

Matrilineal inheritance of a key mediator of prenatal maternal effects

B Tschirren, AK Ziegler, JL Pick… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sex-linkage is predicted to evolve in response to sex-specific or sexually antagonistic
selection. In line with this prediction, most sex-linked genes are associated with reproduction …