dc.contributor.author | Ihle, KE | |
dc.contributor.author | Hutter, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Tschirren, B | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-06T10:59:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-08-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Inbreeding depression refers to the reduction of fitness that results from matings between relatives. Evidence for reduced fitness in inbred individuals is widespread, but the strength of inbreeding depression varies widely both within and among taxa. Environmental conditions can mediate this variation in the strength of inbreeding depression, with environmental stress exacerbating the negative consequences of inbreeding. Parents can modify the environment experienced by offspring, and have thus the potential to mitigate the negative consequences of inbreeding. While such parental effects have recently been demonstrated during the postnatal period, the role of prenatal parental effects in influencing the expression of inbreeding depression remains unexplored. To address this gap, we performed matings between full-sibs or unrelated individuals in replicated lines of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) experimentally selected for high and low maternal egg provisioning. We show that in the low maternal investment lines hatching success was strongly reduced when parents were related. In the high maternal investment lines, however, this negative effect of inbreeding on hatching success was absent, demonstrating that prenatal maternal provisioning can alleviate the negative fitness consequences of inbreeding. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The study was financially supported by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (PP00P3_128386 and PP00P3_157455 to B.T.) and the Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 284 (1860), article 20171347 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2017.1347 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30588 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.source | Data are available from Dryad: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kk4qn | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28794224 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Author(s)
Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.
http://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental stress | en_GB |
dc.subject | inbreeding depression | en_GB |
dc.subject | maternal effects | en_GB |
dc.subject | maternal rescue | en_GB |
dc.subject | parental care | en_GB |
dc.subject | prenatal maternal investment | en_GB |
dc.title | Increased prenatal maternal investment reduces inbreeding depression in offspring | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-06T10:59:13Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |