Maternal effects in mammals (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The role of maternal effects in mammalian evolution and adaptation / Dario Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo -- The genetics and evolutionary consequences of maternal effects / James M. Cheverud and Jason B. Wolf -- A theoretical overview of genetic maternal effects : evolutionary predictions and empirical tests with mammalian data / Michael J. Wade, Nicholas K. Priest, and Tami E. Cruickshank -- Maternal effects on evolutionary dynamics in wild small mammals / Andrew G. McAdam -- Maternal effects in wild ungulates / Alastair J. Wilson and Marco Festa-Bianchet -- Maternal effects on offspring size and development in pinnipeds / W. Don Bowen -- Maternal influences on development, social relationships, and survival behaviors / Jill M. Mateo -- Maternal influences on offspring food preferences and feeding behaviors in mammals / Bennett G. Galef Jr. -- The trans-generational influence of maternal care on offspring gene expression and behavior in rodents / Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley -- Effects of intrauterine position in litter-bearing mammals / John G. Vandenbergh -- Maternal effects in fissiped carnivores / Kay E. Holekamp and Stephanie M. Dloniak -- Maternal influences on offspring growth, reproduction, and behavior in primates / Dario Maestripieri -- Maternal effects, social cognitive development, and the evolution of human intelligence / David F. Bjorklund, Jason Grotuss, and Adriana Csinady -- Maternal effects in mammals : conclusions and future directions / Jill M. Mateo and Dario Maestripieri
Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother's phenotypic traits directly affect her offspring's phenotype, independent of the offspring's genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits that result in maternal effects have a genetic basis, whereas others are environmentally determined. For example, the size of a litter produced by a mammalian mother-a trait with a strong genetic basis-can affect the growth rate of her offspring, while a mother's dominance rank-an environmentally determined trait-can affect the dominance rank of her offspring. The first volume published on the sub