Adaptive paternal effects? Experimental evidence that the paternal environment affects offspring performance

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2575-2582

  Crean, Angela J ^a,b   Dwyer, John M ^a   Marshall, Dustin J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

External fertilization; Nongenetic inheritance; Parental effect; Paternal effect; Sperm phenotype; Sperm plasticity; Styela plicata

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FITNESS; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPAWNING; SPERM COMPETITION;

STYELA PLICATA;

EID: 84887915989     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0184.1     Document Type: Article

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