An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine
Maternal hormones can be transferred to offspring during prenatal development in response to the maternal social environment, and may adaptively alter offspring phenotype. For example, numerous avian studies show that aggressive competition with conspecifics tends to result in females allocating mor...
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crwiley:10.1111/jav.01635 2024-10-13T14:06:11+00:00 An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine Bentz, Alexandra B. Andreasen, Victoria A. Navara, Kristen J. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jav.01635 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjav.01635 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jav.01635 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Journal of Avian Biology volume 49, issue 3 ISSN 0908-8857 1600-048X journal-article 2018 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01635 2024-09-23T04:35:30Z Maternal hormones can be transferred to offspring during prenatal development in response to the maternal social environment, and may adaptively alter offspring phenotype. For example, numerous avian studies show that aggressive competition with conspecifics tends to result in females allocating more testosterone to their egg yolks, and this may cause offspring to have more competitive phenotypes. However, deviations from this pattern of maternal testosterone allocation are found, largely in studies of colonial species, and have yet to be explained. Colonial species may have different life‐history constraints causing different yolk testosterone allocation strategies in response to conspecific competition, but few studies have experimentally tested whether colonial species do indeed differ from that of solitary species. To test this, we collected eggs from zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata , a colonial species, in the presence and absence of conspecific intrusions. Females did not alter the concentration of testosterone deposited in eggs laid during intrusions despite becoming more aggressive. These results suggest that maternal effects are not characterized by a uniform response to the social environment, but rather need to be contextualized with life‐history traits. Article in Journal/Newspaper Avian Studies Wiley Online Library Journal of Avian Biology 49 3 |
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Maternal hormones can be transferred to offspring during prenatal development in response to the maternal social environment, and may adaptively alter offspring phenotype. For example, numerous avian studies show that aggressive competition with conspecifics tends to result in females allocating more testosterone to their egg yolks, and this may cause offspring to have more competitive phenotypes. However, deviations from this pattern of maternal testosterone allocation are found, largely in studies of colonial species, and have yet to be explained. Colonial species may have different life‐history constraints causing different yolk testosterone allocation strategies in response to conspecific competition, but few studies have experimentally tested whether colonial species do indeed differ from that of solitary species. To test this, we collected eggs from zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata , a colonial species, in the presence and absence of conspecific intrusions. Females did not alter the concentration of testosterone deposited in eggs laid during intrusions despite becoming more aggressive. These results suggest that maternal effects are not characterized by a uniform response to the social environment, but rather need to be contextualized with life‐history traits. |
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Bentz, Alexandra B. Andreasen, Victoria A. Navara, Kristen J. |
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Bentz, Alexandra B. Andreasen, Victoria A. Navara, Kristen J. An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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Bentz, Alexandra B. Andreasen, Victoria A. Navara, Kristen J. |
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An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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An experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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experimental test of the relationship between yolk testosterone and the social environment in a colonial passerine |
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