Heritability of progeny size in a terrestrial isopod: transgenerational environmental effects on a life history trait

dc.contributor.authorCarter, MJ
dc.contributor.authorLardies, MA
dc.contributor.authorNespolo, RF
dc.contributor.authorBozinovic, F
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T01:07:31Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T01:07:31Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractMaternal effects, the environment that mothers provide to their offspring, their provision of nutrients and the environment that offspring of the same clutch share, have come to be recognized as an important influence on offspring fitness. In addition, in invertebrates, maternal effects and common environment may change according to a mother's diet. We tested for the changes in quantitative genetic parameters in a half-sib design where mothers were fed diets varying in nutrient content. Surprisingly, we found that not only maternal and common environmental variance changed with experimental diets but also there were significant changes in narrow-sense heritabilities, with corresponding h(2) values of 0.61 (high protein), 0.08 (high carbohydrate) and 0.001 ( equal carbohydrate: protein). Our results show how an environmentally driven evolutionary process could occur in nature, since the response to selection could change dramatically according to the composition of the diet that females are ingesting.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/sj.hdy.6800523
dc.identifier.eissn1365-2540
dc.identifier.issn0018-067X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6800523
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/96341
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000224693300009
dc.issue.numero5
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final459
dc.pagina.inicio455
dc.revistaHeredity
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectmaternal effects
dc.subjectnarrow-sense heritability
dc.subjectanimal model
dc.subjectphenotypic plasticity
dc.subjectterrestrial isopod
dc.subjectevolutionary process
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.titleHeritability of progeny size in a terrestrial isopod: transgenerational environmental effects on a life history trait
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen93
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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