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DOI	10.1111/ele.13373
	Transgenerational effects benefit offspring across diverse environments: a meta-analysis in plants and animals
	Yin J.; Zhou M.; Lin Z.; Li Q.Q.; Zhang Y.-Y.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1461023X
卷号	22 期号:11
英文摘要	The adaptive value of transgenerational effects (the ancestor environmental effects on offspring) in changing environments has received much attention in recent years, but the related empirical evidence remains equivocal. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis summarising 139 experimental studies in plants and animals with 1170 effect sizes to investigate the generality of transgenerational effects across taxa, traits, and environmental contexts. It was found that transgenerational effects generally enhanced offspring performance in response to both stressful and benign conditions. The strongest effects are in annual plants and invertebrates, whereas vertebrates appear to benefit mostly under benign conditions, and perennial plants show hardly any transgenerational responses at all. These differences among taxonomic/life-history groups possibly reflect that vertebrates can avoid stressful conditions through their mobility, and longer-lived plants have alternative strategies. In addition to environmental contexts and taxonomic/life-history groups, transgenerational effects also varied among traits and developmental stages of ancestors and offspring, but the effects were similarly strong across three generations of offspring. By way of a more comprehensive data set and a different effect size, our results differ from those of a recent meta-analysis, suggesting that transgenerational effects are widespread, strong and persistent and can substantially impact the responses of plants and animals to changing environments. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS
英文关键词	Fluctuating environment; meta-analysis; parental effect; transgenerational effect
语种	英语
scopus关键词	ancestry; annual plant; environmental change; experimental study; fitness; invertebrate; life history; meta-analysis; parental care; taxonomy; vertebrate; Animalia; Invertebrata; Vertebrata; animal; climate; invertebrate; meta analysis; phenotype; plant; Animals; Climate; Invertebrates; Phenotype; Plants
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/121016
作者单位	Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China; Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yin J.,Zhou M.,Lin Z.,et al. Transgenerational effects benefit offspring across diverse environments: a meta-analysis in plants and animals[J],2019,22(11).
APA	Yin J.,Zhou M.,Lin Z.,Li Q.Q.,&Zhang Y.-Y..(2019).Transgenerational effects benefit offspring across diverse environments: a meta-analysis in plants and animals.Ecology Letters,22(11).
MLA	Yin J.,et al."Transgenerational effects benefit offspring across diverse environments: a meta-analysis in plants and animals".Ecology Letters 22.11(2019).