Causes and Consequences of Inclusive Inheritance

Session

Session 1

Nov 6, 2019, 2:00 PM

Lecture Hall (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

2. Keynote: Transgenerational age effects in a long-lived bird

Sandra Bouwhuis

11/6/19, 2:00 PM

Birds, in comparison to mammals, are relatively long lived for their size and were once thought to largely escape senescence. As longitudinal studies have accumulated, it has, however, become clear that many avian traits show signs of late-life deterioration. In addition, there is increasing evidence for transgenerational effects of parental age. Using individual-based data from a large colony...

4. Transgenerational effects of early developmental stress on morphology and fitness-related traits in captive zebra finches

Yifan Pei

11/6/19, 2:30 PM

Using >2000 captive zebra finches that we have detailed information on early developmental stress experienced by these birds as well as their parents and grandparents, we quantify direct as well as trans-generational effects of early stress on multiple morphological and fitness-related traits. We meta-summarize the effects across multiple stressors and dependent traits in order to generate...

5. Paternal epigenetic effects: Do fathers transmit their experiences to their sons?

Alexandra Weyrich

11/6/19, 2:45 PM

Epigenetic changes function as flexible mechanisms increasing adaptability within a generation and transmitting the environmental information to subsequent generations in vertebrates. In times of global warming and changing vegetation, we aimed to study the epigenetic response of a wild mammal species, the wild guinea pig, to an increase in temperature (of 10°C more than ambient) as well as to...

6. Transgenerational and direct effects of the social environment on body mass and reproduction in a match/mismatch experiment in Japanese quail ( Coturnix japonica )

Esther Langen

11/6/19, 3:00 PM

The social environment can affect the phenotype of breeding females and can have transgenerational effects on the phenotypes of their future offspring. Using Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), we studied maternal (P0) effects of the social environment on female offspring (F1) housed under matched and mismatched conditions with respect to group size (pairs of two vs. groups of four birds). The...

7. Poster Flash Talks

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11/6/19, 3:15 PM

see attachments, 8 posters, 3 min resp.