Recently, the adaptive significance of maternal effects has been increasingly recognized. No
longer are maternal effects relegated as simpletroublesome sources of environmental …

Indirect genetic effects (IGEs) are environmental influences on the phenotype of one
individual that are due to the expression of genes in a different, conspecific, individual …

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by
discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical …

Maternal effects have become an important field of study in evolutionary ecology and there
is an ongoing debate regarding their adaptive significance. Some maternal effects can act to …

Interacting phenotypes are traits whose expression is affected by interactions with
conspecifics. Commonly‐studied interacting phenotypes include aggression, courtship, and …

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 …

Summary 1 Genetic and environmental maternal effects can play an important role in the
evolutionary dynamics of a population: they may have a substantial impact on the rate and …

Microevolution, defined as a change in the genetic constitution of a population over time, is
considered to be of commonplace occurrence in nature. Its ubiquity can be inferred from the …

The niche‐construction perspective within evolutionary biology places emphasis on the
changes that organisms bring about in their selective environments. Advocates of this …

The science of genetics is undergoing a paradigm shift. Recent discoveries, including the
activity of retrotransposons, the extent of copy number variations, somatic and chromosomal …