Nature vs. Nurture: Disentangling the Influence of Inheritance, Incubation Temperature, and Post-Natal Care on Offspring Heart Rate and Metabolism in Zebra Finches.

ABSTRACT: A historic debate in biology is the question of nature vs. nurture. Although it is now known that most traits are a product of both heredity ("nature") and the environment ("nurture"), these two driving forces of trait development are rarely examined together. In birds, one important aspect of the early developmental environment is egg incubation temperature. Small changes (<1°C) in incubation temperature can have large effects on a wide-array of offspring traits. One important trait is metabolism, because it is related to life-history traits and strategies, organismal performance, and energetic and behavioral strategies. Although it has been shown that embryonic and post-hatch metabolism are related to egg incubation temperature, little is known about how this may vary as a function of ge

SUBMITTER: Hope SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127084 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature