Project

”Born to ageing parents” - integrating pre- and postnatal parental effects

Code
3G0E1614
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal biology
    • General biology
    • Genetics
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Veterinary medicine
Keywords
maternal effects paternal effects
 
Project description

Study of transgenerational effects of ageing in Lesser black-backed gulls through quantifation of

consequences of ageing parents on their offspring. Parental-age related variation in offspring

quality is thereby predicted to relate to prenatal maternal effects, i.e. changes in offspring

phenotype as a result of changes in the pre-hatching environment, while prenatal paternal

effects are predicted to act via sperm.