Maternal and cohort effects modulate offspring responses to multiple stressors.

ABSTRACT: Current concerns about climate change have led to intensive research attempting to understand how climate-driven stressors affect the performance of organisms, in particular the offspring of many invertebrates and fishes. Although stressors are likely to act on several stages of the life cycle, little is known about their action across life phases, for instance how multiple stressors experienced simultaneously in the maternal environment can modulate the responses to the same stressors operating in the offspring environment. Here, we study how performance of offspring of a marine invertebrate (shore crab Carcinus maenas) changes in response to two stressors (temperature and salinity) experienced during embryogenesis in brooding mothers from different seasons. On average, offspring r

SUBMITTER: Torres G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature