Effects of developmental and adult environments on ageing.

ABSTRACT: Developmental and adult environments can interact in complex ways to influence the fitness of individuals. Most studies investigating effects of the environment on fitness focus on environments experienced and traits expressed at a single point in an organism's life. However, environments vary with time, so the effects of the environments that organisms experience at different ages may interact to affect how traits change throughout life. Here, we test whether thermal stress experienced during development leads individuals to cope better with thermal stress as adults. We manipulated temperature during both development and adulthood and measured a range of life-history traits, including senescence, in male and female seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus). We found that thermal stress duri

SUBMITTER: Sanghvi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543291 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature