Maternal Effects in Ontogeny and Evolution

Maternal Exposure to Silver Nanoparticles in Mice: Effects on Dams’ Reproductive Performance and Pups’ Neurobehavioral Ontogeny

Introduction: - Significant increase in usage of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer products, has increased its exposures to human and animals. Although there are some reports regarding the effects of AgNPs on complex organisms, no report was found as to its effects on neurobehavioral ontogeny. Methods: To investigate the effects of maternal exposure to AgNPs on development of neu...

Maternal effects in molecular evolution.

We introduce a model of molecular evolution in which the fitness of an individual depends both on its own and on the parent's genotype. The model can be solved by means of a nonlinear mapping onto the standard quasispecies model. The dependency on the parental genotypes cancels from the mean fitness, but not from the individual sequence concentrations. For finite populations, the position of th...

maternal exposure to silver nanoparticles in mice: effects on dams’ reproductive performance and pups’ neurobehavioral ontogeny

introduction: - significant increase in usage of silver nanoparticles (agnps) in consumer products, has increased its exposures to human and animals. although there are some reports regarding the effects of agnps on complex organisms, no report was found as to its effects on neurobehavioral ontogeny. methods: to investigate the effects of maternal exposure to agnps on development of neurobehavi...

Evolution of maternal effects: past and present.

1. A BRIEF HISTORYOF ‘MATERNAL EFFECTSAS ADAPTATIONS’, 1998 It has been said that many original ideas reflect a convergence of related thought that coalesces into a unified representation of what many have been thinking. This is certainly true for the subfield of maternal effects evolution. The study of maternal effects has a long history. The first two papers reported in the ISI database deali...

The Role of Maternal Effects in Evolution