There is increasing interest in documenting and explaining the existence of marked
intraspecific variation in metabolic rate in animals, with fishes providing some of the best …

The production of fertile eggs with the capacity to develop into larvae and subsequently into
marketable fish is centrally important to the aquaculture industry. This entails not only the …

Wild and captive vertebrates face multiple stressors that all have the potential to induce
chronic maternal stress (ie, sustained, elevated plasma glucocorticoids), resulting in embryo …

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 …

Animals generally adjust their behavior in response to bodily state (eg, size and energy
reserves) to optimize energy intake in relation to mortality risk, weighing predation …

Evolution of adaptation requires predictability and recurrence of functional contexts. Yet
organisms live in multifaceted environments that are dynamic and ever changing, making it …

The environment mothers are exposed to has resonating effects on offspring performance. In
iteroparous species, maternal exposure to stressors generally results in offspring ill …

Competition between conspecifics during the breeding season can result in behavioural and
physiological programming of offspring via maternal effects. For birds, in which maternal …

Differences in behavioral responses to environmental conditions and biological interactions
are a key determinant of individual performance. This study investigated how the availability …

Cortisol, the main glucocorticoid stress hormone in teleost fish, is of interest as a mediator of
maternal stress on offspring characteristics because it plays an organizational role during …