How should parents adjust the size of their young in response to local environmental cues?

How dispersal influences parent–offspring conflict over investment

(2012) Bram Kuijper et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

EVOLUTION OF HELPING AND HARMING IN HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS

(2012) António M. M. Rodrigues et al.   EVOLUTION

Genetic variation for maternal effects on parasite susceptibility

(2011) M. STJERNMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Juvenile exposure to predator cues induces a larger egg size in fish

(2011) F. H. I. D. Segers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Male attractiveness regulates daughter fecundity non-genetically via maternal investment

(2011) L. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution in structured populations: beyond the kin versus group debate

(2011) Sébastien Lion et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How Demography, Life History, and Kinship Shape the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting

(2010) Jeremy Van Cleve et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The relationship between maternal phenotype and offspring quality: Do older mothers really produce the best offspring?

(2010) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   ECOLOGY

Egg size and food abundance interactively affect juvenile growth and behaviour

(2010) Francisca H.I.D. Segers et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Maternal effects on offspring size and packaging constraints in the whelk

(2010) S. Nasution et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

How to balance the offspring quality-quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable

(2010) Barbara Fischer et al.   OIKOS

Female sticklebacks transfer information via eggs: effects of maternal experience with predators on offspring

(2010) E. R. Giesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pathogen Dose Infectivity Curves as a Method to Analyze the Distribution of Host Susceptibility: A Quantitative Assessment of Maternal Effects after Food Stress and Pathogen Exposure

(2009) Frida Ben‐Ami et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

ADAPTIVE MATERNAL ADJUSTMENTS OF OFFSPRING SIZE IN RESPONSE TO CONSPECIFIC DENSITY IN TWO POPULATIONS OF THE LEAST KILLIFISH,HETERANDRIA FORMOSA

(2009) Jeff Leips et al.   EVOLUTION

Habitat saturation and the spatial evolutionary ecology of altruism

(2009) S. LION et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

(2009) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sex Differences in Dispersal and the Evolution of Helping and Harming

(2008) Rufus A. Johnstone et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN MATERNAL INVESTMENT: ACIDITY AFFECTS EGG SIZE AND FECUNDITY INRANA ARVALIS

(2008) Katja Räsänen et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Offspring Size Plasticity in Response to Intraspecific Competition: An Adaptive Maternal Effect across Life‐History Stages

(2007) Richard M. Allen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST