Review
Immunology
Matthew Taylor, Jamie Pillaye, William Gordon Charles Horsnell
Summary: An inherent elevation in type 2 immunity is a feature of maternal and offspring immune systems, influencing pregnancy success, offspring immune development, and ability to control infections and diseases such as allergies. Understanding this axis of immune influence can be utilized to improve maternal and offspring health.
SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
S. T. Koenigbauer, T. O. Hook
Summary: Contemporary fisheries research and management emphasize the importance of protecting the size and age structures of fish populations. This study conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of increasing female size on offspring performance in fish. The results support the idea that larger females benefit offspring performance, but they must trade off between egg size and fecundity. Larger eggs promote offspring growth and survival, but may incur relative fecundity costs.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Marisa Benagiano, Salvatore Mancuso, Jan J. Brosens, Giuseppe Benagiano
Summary: HDP and PE have lasting consequences for both pregnant women and fetuses, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases in the future. The placental vascular lesions characteristic of this pathology may induce long-term adverse effects on the arterial system of pregnant women.
Article
Psychiatry
Renata L. Alves, Camila C. Portugal, Igor M. Lopes, Pedro Oliveira, Cecilia J. Alves, Fernando Barbosa, Teresa Summavielle, Ana Magalhaes
Summary: Research has revealed that depressive mothers may find it challenging to interact with their children. Maternal stress may worsen mother-child attachment, increasing the likelihood of negative developmental consequences.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Noelle G. Beckman, Lauren L. Sullivan
Summary: Seed dispersal is a complex process that involves the interaction of plant life history, vector movement, and the environment. It has important implications for plant population and community dynamics, including gene flow, population dynamics, range expansion, and diversity. Recent research has developed several unifying frameworks that provide a more mechanistic understanding of dispersal.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Cynthia Rombaut, David Roura-Martinez, Catherine Lepolard, Eduardo Gascon
Summary: Our study investigated the effects of short (15 min, 3 times/day) vs. long (3 h, 1 time/day) maternal separation on maternal behavior and its impact on offspring. Results showed that short separation enhanced maternal care, while long separation resulted in poor caregiving. The effects of short separation persisted during the entire post-natal period, while the effects of long separation were limited to early life. Furthermore, we found that maternal separation had profound effects on social tasks, particularly on affiliative touch.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Cora E. Anderson, Morad C. Malek, Rachael A. Jonas-Closs, Yongmin Cho, Leonid Peshkin, Marc W. Kirschner, Lev Y. Yampolsky
Summary: The effects of maternal age on offspring life history vary and have specific mechanisms. In this study, the specific impact of maternal age on offspring longevity and the propensity to produce male offspring was observed. These effects can be explained by maternal lipid provisioning during embryonic development.
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Scott C. Burgess, Jackson Powell, Marilia Bueno
Summary: Dispersal has significant implications for sessile organisms. Escaping competition and kinship are believed to be key factors leading to dispersal. In a marine bryozoan, researchers found that larvae neither preferred nor avoided conspecifics or kin during settlement. Manipulative experiments showed that settler density reduced maternal fitness when neighbors were siblings. Limited kinship was also observed among adult neighbors in the natural population.
Editorial Material
Immunology
Kristine E. Zengeler, John R. Lukens
Summary: Individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders often experience gastrointestinal distress and dysregulated immune responses. This study found that inflammation can alter the microbiota of mothers, leading to increased susceptibility to intestinal inflammation in their offspring.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Shuai Yuan, Sanjukta Das, Ram Ramesh, Chunming Qiao
Summary: This study focuses on the availability of cloud services and proposes a strategy for adjusting the allocation of backup resources to minimize expected total cost. The study also considers the limitation on the number of interventions and provides cost minimization and downtime minimization approaches for resource management. The findings are validated through analysis of real-world use cases and provide practical managerial implications for resource deployment in availability-aware cloud environments.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Saida Breuer, Philipp Kasper, Christina Vohlen, Ruth Janoschek, Thorben Hoffmann, Sarah Appel, Elena Mueller-Limberger, Andrea Mesaros, Stefan Rose-John, Christoph Garbers, Stefan Mueller, Jan-Wilm Lackmann, Esther Mahabir, Joerg Doetsch, Eva Hucklenbruch-Rother, Inga Bae-Gartz
Summary: Maternal obesity affects offspring's body weight and epigonadal white adipose tissue metabolism, predominantly independent of IL-6tS inhibition as shown in a transgenic mouse model. This highlights the importance of maternal and newborn nutrition for long-term offspring health.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jadiel A. Wasson, Gareth Harris, Sabine Keppler-Ross, Trisha J. Brock, Abdul R. Dar, Rebecca A. Butcher, Sylvia E. J. Fischer, Konstantinos Kagias, Jon Clardy, Yun Zhang, Susan E. Mango
Summary: This study reveals that social cues can influence maternal provisioning to offspring in Caenorhabditis elegans through a neuron and neuropeptide. Parental FMRFamide-like peptide signaling affects offspring's oxidative stress resistance and gene silencing, indicating a previously unknown pathway for intergenerational communication. Loss of social cues in the parental environment is shown to stimulate stress responses across generations.
Article
Cell Biology
Hamed Janbazacyabar, Marthe van Daal, Thea Leusink-Muis, Ingrid van Ark, Johan Garssen, Gert Folkerts, Jeroen van Bergenhenegouwen, Saskia Braber
Summary: Maternal smoke exposure leads to exacerbated airway inflammation in dams and exacerbated immune responses in offspring, with both phenomena associated with elevated EGF concentrations.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Daniel Suarez, Paula Arribas, Eduardo Jimenez-Garcia, Brent C. Emerson
Summary: Dispersal ability plays a crucial role in shaping the genetic structure, population differentiation, and lineage diversification within species. This study on beetles and spiders in the Canary Islands reveals a positive relationship between population genetic structure and diversification. Non-dispersive lineages exhibit stronger population genetic structure, higher endemic species richness at the genus level, and greater proxies for diversification rate. These findings suggest that dispersal limitation influences species and lineage diversity across evolutionary timescales, with higher extinction rates in less dispersive lineages.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
You-Lin Tain, Chien-Ning Hsu
Summary: Maternal high-fat diet is linked to offspring hypertension, and potential mechanisms have been revealed through animal studies. Reprogramming interventions can prevent high-fat-diet-induced hypertension.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
