Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Maternal effects as generators of evolutionary change: a reassessment.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jan 2008

Badyaev Alexander V

Abstract excerpt

Despite being a center of debate in biology for centuries, the connection between the generation of novel adaptive variation and its inheritance remains a contentious issue. In evolutionary and behavioral ecology, assigning natural and sexual selection a creative and anticipatory role unmasks the need to explicitly consider the link between a trait's functional importance and its inheritance and results in...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Adaptation, Biological
Share to Evolution, Molecular
Share to Genetic Variation

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy Delete account & data About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Genomic Imprinting

Share to Models, Biological

Share to Models, Genetic

Share to Mothers

Share to Quantitative Trait, Heritable

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 18559819
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1438.009

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-08.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence. Graph snapshot: 2026-09-29.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Maternal effects as generators of evolutionary change: a reassessment.PMID 18559819Read ↗

Parental effects in ecology and evolution: mechanisms, processes and implications.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The origins of variation: evolutionary insights from developmental science.Semantic proximity Read ↗

What are maternal effects (and what are they not)?Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Integrative Life History of Maternal Effects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolutionary significance of phenotypic accommodation in novel environments: an empirical test of the Baldwin effect.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Maternal effects in mammals: Broadening our understanding of offspring programmingSemantic proximity Read ↗

Origin of the fittest: link between emergent variation and evolutionary change as a critical question in evolutionary biology.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Consistent and flexible maternal effects: how the environments of a mother influence the offspring phenotype.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolutionary genetics of maternal effects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Generational stability of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance facilitates adaptation and evolution.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Developing the genotype-to-phenotype relationship in evolutionary theory: A primer of developmental features.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Developmental Bias and Evolution: A Regulatory Network Perspective.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.