Parental and embryonic experiences with predation risk affect prey offspring behaviour and performance.

ABSTRACT: Because phenotypic plasticity can operate both within and between generations, phenotypic outcomes are often shaped by a complex history of environmental signals. For example, parental and embryonic experiences with predation risk can both independently and interactively influence prey offspring traits early in their life. Parental and embryonic risk experiences can also independently shape offspring phenotypes throughout an offspring's ontogeny, but the persistence of their interactive effects throughout offspring ontogeny is unknown. We examined the effects of parental and embryonic experiences with predation risk on the response of 1-year-old prey (the carnivorous snail, Nucella lapillus) offspring to current predation risk. We found that parental and embryonic risk experiences h

SUBMITTER: Donelan SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879633 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature