Revisiting telegony: Offspring inherit an acquired characteristic of their mother's previous mate

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1545-1552

  Crean, Angela J ^a   Kopps, Anna M ^a,b   Bonduriansky, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Condition; Diet; Inheritance of acquired traits; Non genetic inheritance; Paternal effect; Plasticity; Seminal proteins; Telegony

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PATERNAL EFFECT; PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; FEMALE; INHERITANCE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; FEMALE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84939260336     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12373     Document Type: Article

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