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SUBMITTER: Prizak R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4161186 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prizak Roshan R Ezard Thomas H G TH Hoyle Rebecca B RB
Ecology and evolution 20140719 15
Transgenerational effects are broader than only parental relationships. Despite mounting evidence that multigenerational effects alter phenotypic and life-history traits, our understanding of how they combine to determine fitness is not well developed because of the added complexity necessary to study them. Here, we derive a quantitative genetic model of adaptation to an extraordinary new environment by an additive genetic component, phenotypic plasticity, maternal and grandmaternal effects. We ...[more]