Anticipatory parental effects in a subtropical lizard in response to experimental warming.

ABSTRACT: Parental effects may produce adaptive or maladaptive plasticity that either facilitates persistence or increases the extinction risk of species and populations in a changing climate. However, empirical evidence of transgenerational adaptive plastic responses to climate change is still scarce. Here we conducted thermal manipulation experiments with a factorial design in a Chinese lacertid lizard (Takydromus septentrionalis) to identify the fitness consequences of parental effects in response to climate warming. Compared to present climate conditions, a simulated warming climate significantly advanced the timing of oviposition, depressed the immune capability of post-partum females, and decreased the hatching success of embryos, but did not affect female reproductive output (clutch si

SUBMITTER: Sun BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6282349 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature