Genetic architecture and phenotypic plasticity are important considerations when studying
trait variation within and among populations. Since environmental change can induce shifts …

The microbiota consists of microbes living in or on an organism and has been implicated in
host health and function. Environmental and host-related factors were shown to shape host …

The view of maternal effects (nongenetic maternal environmental influence on offspring
phenotype) has changed from one of distracting complications in evolutionary genetics to an …

With global temperatures projected to surpass the limits of thermal tolerance for many
species, evaluating the heritable variation underlying thermal tolerance is critical for …

Laboratory studies on embryos of salmonids, such as the brown trout (Salmo trutta), have
been extensively used to study environmental stress and how responses vary within and …

Offspring traits are greatly influenced by maternal effects, and these maternal effects may
provide an important pathway through which populations can adapt to changing thermal …

Population divergence through selection can drive local adaptation in natural populations
which has implications for the effective restoration of declining and extirpated populations …

Understanding how the interplay between genetic and environmental factors changes over
the lifetime of a species is critical when selecting broodstock to optimize production at each …

Background Pedigree reconstruction using genetic analysis provides a useful means to
estimate fundamental population biology parameters relating to population demography …

It is often assumed that maternal and paternal contributions to offspring phenotype change
over the lifetime of an individual. However, studies on parental effects typically suffer from …