Fitness
- Influence of maternal diet on offspring survivorship, growth, and reproduction in a sheetweb spider
Summary: A single meal immediately before oviposition is sufficient to influence offspring survival, growth, and daughters' reproduction in the sheetweb spider Hylyphantes graminicola.
- Maternal glucocorticoid levels during incubation predict breeding success, but not reproductive investment, in a free-ranging bird
Summary: Levels of the stress biomarker corticosterone predict breeding success in female tree swallows. However, correlations between hormone levels and fitness differ between life-history stages.
- Maternal immunization increases nestling energy expenditure, immune function, and fledging success in a passerine bird
Summary: Exposure of female birds to a simulated pathogen prior to egg laying increases the metabolic rate, immune function, and fledging success of her nestlings.