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Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan

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Summary, in English

Transgenerational effects of environmental conditions can have several important ecological and evolutionary implications. We conducted a fully factorial experiment manipulating food availability across three generations in the collembolan Folsomia candida, a springtail species that inhabits soil and leaf litter environments which vary in resource availability. Maternal and grandmaternal food availability influenced age at maturity and reproductive output. These effects appear to be cumulative rather than adaptive transgenerational life-history adjustments. Such cumulative effects can profoundly influence eco-evolutionary dynamics in both stable and fluctuating environments.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

755-758

Publication/Series

Biology letters

Volume

7

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Royal Society Publishing

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1744-9561