Transgenerational plasticity in a zooplankton in response to elevated temperature and parasitism.

ABSTRACT: Organisms are increasingly facing multiple stressors, which can simultaneously interact to cause unpredictable impacts compared with a single stressor alone. Recent evidence suggests that phenotypic plasticity can allow for rapid responses to altered environments, including biotic and abiotic stressors, both within a generation and across generations (transgenerational plasticity). Parents can potentially "prime" their offspring to better cope with similar stressors or, alternatively, might produce offspring that are less fit because of energetic constraints. At present, it remains unclear exactly how biotic and abiotic stressors jointly mediate the responses of transgenerational plasticity and whether this plasticity is adaptive. Here, we test the effects of biotic and abiotic environment

SUBMITTER: Sun SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature