Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.

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-uterin...

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Autores principales:	Timothée D Fouqueray, Daniel T Blumstein, Raquel Monclús, Julien G A Martin
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2f9df724585940d38729531e5fc06fd72021-11-18T08:26:53ZMaternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0092718https://doaj.org/article/2f9df724585940d38729531e5fc06fd72014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24651864/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In 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.Timothée D FouquerayDaniel T BlumsteinRaquel MonclúsJulien G A MartinPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e92718 (2014)
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description	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.
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author	Timothée D Fouqueray Daniel T Blumstein Raquel Monclús Julien G A Martin
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title	Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.
title_short	Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.
title_full	Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.
title_fullStr	Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.
title_full_unstemmed	Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.
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Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.

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