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What are maternal effects (and what are they not)?

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Apr 2009

Wolf Jason B, Wade Michael J

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Maternal effects can play an important role in a diversity of ecological and evolutionary processes such as population dynamics, phenotypic plasticity, niche construction, life-history evolution and the evolutionary response to selection. However, although maternal effects were defined by quantitative geneticists well over half a century ago, there remains some confusion over exactly what phenomena should be...

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PMID: 19324615
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0238
PMCID: PMC2666680

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