Phenotypic development is the result of a complex interplay involving the organism's own
genetic make-up and the environment it experiences during development. The latter …

The consequences of early developmental conditions for performance in later life are now
subjected to convergent interest from many different biological sub-disciplines. However …

Human diseases in adulthood are increasingly associated with growth patterns in early life,
implicating early‐life nutrition as the underlying mechanism. The thrifty phenotype …

Nest microclimate can have strong effects that can carry over to later life-history stages. We
experimentally cooled the nests of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Females incubating …

A close relationship between adult abundance and stock productivity may not exist for many
marine fish stocks, resulting in concern that the management goal of maximum sustainable …

Because the maintenance of proper developmental temperatures during avian incubation is
costly to parents, embryos of many species experience pronounced variation in incubation …

Although most work on prenatal stress has been conducted on mammalian species, birds
provide useful alternative models since avian embryos develop outside the mother's body in …

Mate choice studies routinely assume female preferences for indicators of high quality in
males but rarely consider developmental causes of within-population variation in mating …

Adverse experiences in early life can exert powerful delayed effects on adult survival and
health. Telomere attrition is a potentially important mechanism in such effects. One source of …

Stress during early life can profoundly influence an individual's phenotype. Effects can
manifest in the short-term as well as later in life and even in subsequent generations …