Early environments can profoundly influence an organism in ways that persist over its life. In
reptiles, early thermal environments (nest temperatures) can impact offspring phenotype and …

When individuals of two species interact, they can adjust their phenotypes in response to
their respective partner, be they antagonists or mutualists. The reciprocal phenotypic change …

Predators are potent agents of natural selection in biological communities. Experimental
studies have shown that the introduction of predators can cause rapid evolution of defensive …

Early life experiences shape an individual's physical and mental health across the lifespan.
Not surprisingly, an upbringing that is associated with adversity can produce detrimental …

Recent developments in evolutionary physiology have seen many of the long-held
assumptions within comparative physiology receive rigorous experimental analysis. Studies …

There are profound maternal effects on individual differences in defensive responses and
reproductive strategies in species ranging literally from plants to insects to birds. Maternal …

Maternal effects can have dramatic influences on the phenotype of offspring. Maternal
effects can act as a conduit by which the maternal environment negatively affects offspring …

Predation risk has long been known to exert a strong influence on behavior, but no study to
date has determined whether predators influence offspring antipredator behavior via …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in chemical defense is thought to play a major role in plant‐
herbivore interactions. We investigated genetic variation for inducibility of defensive traits in …

Many plants induce defenses against herbivores following initial attack. Maternal effects
associated with herbivory could mediate induced defenses across generations of plants if …