Maternal effects can play an important role in a diversity of ecological and evolutionary
processes such as population dynamics, phenotypic plasticity, niche construction, life-history …

Oviposition-site choice is a major maternal effect by which females can affect the survival
and phenotype of their offspring. Across oviparous species, the ultimate reasons for females' …

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

SYNOPSIS. Maternal effects comprise a class of phenotypic effects that parents have on
phenotypes of their offspring that are unrelated to the offspring's own genotype. Although …

SYNOPSIS. Propagule size is perhaps the most widely recognized and studied maternal
effect in ecology, yet its evolution is not well-understood. The large body of extant optimality …

▪ Abstract Inherited environmental effects are those components of the phenotype that are
derived from either parent, apart from nuclear genes. Inherited environmental effects arise …

Nest site selection in reptiles can affect the fitness of the parents through the survival of their
offspring because environmental factors influence embryo survivorship, hatchling quality …

Coevolutionary theory predicts that the most common long‐term outcome of the
relationships between brood parasites and their hosts should be coevolutionary cycles …

Understanding phenotypic diversity requires not only identification of selective factors that
favor origins of derived states, but also factors that favor retention of primitive states. Anurans …

Nest‐site selection behavior is a maternal effect that contributes to offspring survival and
variation in offspring phenotypes that are subject to natural selection. We investigated nest …