This study provides evidence in the pig that stress experienced during gestation has long-lasting effects on offspring daughters, including their maternal behaviour. Thirty-six primiparous sows were divided into control and two groups that were stressed (by social mixing) during either the second (Mix 2) or third (Mix 3) trimester of pregnancy. We found detrimental effects of mixing on the moth...

Common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, are usually characterized as singular cooperative breeders, with only a single, dominant female reproducing in each group. Anecdotal reports, however, have described two females breeding concurrently when an unrelated male joins their group. We tested the hypothesis that incorporation of an unrelated adult male into a family systematically leads to the onse...

Daughters of depressed mothers are at significantly elevated risk for developing a depressive disorder themselves. We have little understanding, however, of the specific factors that contribute to this risk. The ability to regulate negative affect effectively is critical to emotional and physical health and may play an important role in influencing risk for depression. We examined whether never...

OBJECTIVES 1) Examine the association between Black mothers' and daughters' body fatness, physical activity (PA) beliefs and levels of PA, and daughters' PA behavior; 2) determine whether family sociodemographic factors influence these relationships. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional; Black girls recruited from elementary schools in a low socioeconomic area. Data collected at the Georgia Pre...

The aim of the study was to establish a relationship between mothers' and daughters' bone status. Forty-eight postmenopausal women and their 48 premenopausal daughters were evaluated. The analysis was made for the whole group and for two subgroups: 27 healthy mothers and their 27 daughters; and 21 fractured mothers and their 21 daughters. The subgroups were matched for age and years since menop...

Behavioral and endocrine suppression of reproduction in subordinate females produces the high reproductive skew that characterizes callitrichid primate mating systems. Snowdon et al. [American Journal of Primatology 31:11-21, 1993] reported that the eldest daughters in tamarin families exhibit further endocrinological suppression immediately following the birth of siblings, and suggested that d...

Food deprivation after weaning often has greater effects on the reproductive success of females than of males. However, if animals are deprived prenatally (that is, through food deprivation of the mother during gestation), the reproductive success of males may be more adversely affected than that of females because of a disruption in the organizational effects of testosterone in neonatal male m...

(6) Whoi do you know [thati you can really trust]? (7) Which argumenti do you know [thati Sandy thought was unconvincing]? One could assume that the contrast illustrated in (1) to (5) can be accounted for by considering the grammaticalized discourse functions of the dislocated phrases. In the ungrammatical cases in (2) and (5), the dislocated phrase can be considered a grammaticalized topic – ...

CONTEXT The association between in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) and clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) of the vagina and cervix is well known, yet there has been no systematic study of DES-exposed daughters to determine whether they have an increased risk of other cancers. As many as 3 million women in the United States may have been exposed to DES in utero. OBJECTIVE To determine ...

This study investigated the relation between the internal representation of attachment and the perception of the actual exchange of intergenerational support within 100 dyads of adult daughters and their elderly mothers in Germany. Results showed relations between the daughters' preoccupation and avoidance with their perception of receiving emotional support from their parents and providing ins...