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Maternal Effects on Anogenital Distance in a Wild Marmot Population
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (3), pp.e92718. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0092718⟩, Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM, instname, PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2014, 9 (3), pp.e92718. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0092718⟩, PloS one, vol 9, iss 3, PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e92718 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014.
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Abstract
- In mammals, prenatal exposure to sex steroid hormones may have profound effects on later behavior and fitness and have been reported under both laboratory and field conditions. Anogenital distance is a non-invasive measure of prenatal exposure to sex steroid hormones. While we know that intra-uterine position and litter sex ratio influence anogenital distance, there are other, heretofore unstudied, factors that could influence anogenital distance, including maternal effects. We capitalized on a long-term study of wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) to study the importance of maternal effects on explaining variation in anogenital distance and found significant effects. The strength of these effects varied annually. Taken together, our data highlights the strong variability due to environmental effects, and illustrates the importance of additive genetic and maternal genetic effects on neonatal anogenital distance. We suspect that, as others apply recently popularised quantitative genetic techniques to study free-living populations, such effects will be identified in other systems<br />DTB was supported by the National Geographic Society, UCLA (Faculty Senate and the Division of Life Sciences), a Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory research fellowship, and by the NSF (IDBR-0754247 and DEB-1119660 to DTB, as well as DBI 0242960 and 0731346 to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory). RM was supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Spanish Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia and the Fulbright program. JGAM was supported by a FRQNT postdoctoral fellowship and the NSF
- Subjects :
- Male
0106 biological sciences
Litter (animal)
Population genetics
Reproductive health and childbirth
Marmot
Wildlife
01 natural sciences
Pregnancy
Morphogenesis
Gene–environment interaction
Pediatric
[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment
Genetics
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
Anogenital distance
Maternal effect
Biología y Biomedicina / Biología
Mammalogy
Maternal Exposure
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
Medicine
Female
Anatomy
Genital Anatomy
Sex ratio
Research Article
General Science & Technology
Science
Animal Types
Population
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology
Animals
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Sex Ratio
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
education
Evolutionary Biology
Population Biology
Reproductive System
Biology and Life Sciences
biology.organism_classification
Marmota
Veterinary Science
Gene-Environment Interaction
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
Digestive System
Zoology
Developmental Biology
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2c72d58f1b87d452a8611f0e039b4972