{"title":"Non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary theory - the importance of plant studies","authors":"Marta Robertson, C. Richards","doi":"10.1515/NGI-2015-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/NGI-2015-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133991593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Fathers Matter: Influencing Neural Phenotypes Through Non-Genetic Transmission of Paternal Experiences?","authors":"Harleen Hehar, R. Mychasiuk","doi":"10.1515/NGI-2015-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/NGI-2015-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the role of fathers and how paternal experiences actually influence offspring outcomes is a rapidly growing field of research. This Lamarkian mode of inheritance offers offspring an additional mechanism for environmental adaptation that can occur in a single generation, rather than waiting for chance mutations in DNA that may or may not increase an individual's chances for survival. This review article examines the influences of many paternal experiences including, stress, drugs, and alcohol, along with enrichment, exercise, diet and paternal age, on offspring neural phenotypes. Where possible, there is also discussion of the underlying mechanisms that facilitate the transmission of these experiences to the offspring. Although previous ideologies maintained a small role for fathers (merely as sperm-donors) in the developmental trajectories of the offspring they sired, research now demonstrates that they influence a wide range of outcomes such as drug and alcohol tolerance, susceptibility to mental illness, and patterning of the hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress response. These novel findings emphasize the complexity and extensive realm of factors that can influence the development of offspring neural phenotypes.","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130373741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Both negative and positive data are needed forunderstanding non-genetic inheritance","authors":"A. Crean, N. Youngson","doi":"10.1515/NGI-2015-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/NGI-2015-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129878876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Houdelier, F. Pittet, Floriane Guibert, E. Margerie, S. Lumineau
{"title":"Non-genetic Inheritance in Birds: transmission of behaviour from mother to offspring","authors":"C. Houdelier, F. Pittet, Floriane Guibert, E. Margerie, S. Lumineau","doi":"10.2478/NGI-2013-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/NGI-2013-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the mechanisms of non-genetic inheritance is fundamental as they are involved in evolution processes. One of the paths that nongenetic inheritance can take is via maternal effects. Indeed, we know that mammalian mothers can influence the general development of their offspring both before and after birth. In addition, maternal effects have recently been evidenced in avian species thus opening new possibilities to develop our knowledge of non-genetic inheritance mechanisms. Here, we review the literature on prenatal and postnatal maternal effects on bird behavioural development and we detail recent research that opens new perspectives concerning mechanisms involved in non-genetic inheritance.","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133673771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-genetic inheritance and changing environments","authors":"S. Salinas, Simon C. Brown, M. Mangel, S. Munch","doi":"10.2478/NGI-2013-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/NGI-2013-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change continues to impact species worldwide. Understanding and predicting how populations will respond is of clear importance. Here, we review a mechanism by which populations may respond rapidly to these changes: Trans-Generational Plasticity (TGP). TGP exists when the environment experienced by the parents affects the shape of the reaction norm in their offspring; that is, the parental and offspring environments interact to determine the offspring phenotype. We survey 80 empirical studies from 63 species (32 orders, 9 phyla) that demonstrate TGP. Overall, TGP is taxonomically widespread and present in response to environmental drivers likely to be impacted by climate change. Although many examples now exist, we also identify areas of research that could greatly improve our understanding of TGP. We conclude that TGP is sufficiently established both theoretically and empirically to merit study as a potential coping tactic against rapid environmental changes.","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133031818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary theory. A primer","authors":"T. Uller, H. Helanterä","doi":"10.2478/NGI-2013-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/NGI-2013-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutionary biology traditionally equates inheritance with transmission of genes from parents to offspring. However, recent literature calls for considering ‘non-genetic inheritance’ in evolutionary theory. These calls have met with substantial scepticism. What is more, they appear to have caused further confusion both with respect to what inheritance is and what types of inheritance mechanisms are evolutionarily consequential. Building on previous work, we make use of the Price Equation to outline a general discussion of how non-genetic inheritance can affect phenotypic change within populations, exemplified by epigenetic inheritance. This shows that integrating non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary theory will require specific attention to the developmental processes that shape the relationship between the fitness of parents and the phenotype of their offspring. (Less)","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124503469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persistence of developmentally programmed effects across generations: Impact on longevity","authors":"A. Vaiserman","doi":"10.2478/NGI-2013-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/NGI-2013-0004","url":null,"abstract":"A number of recent studies have provided evidence that environmental exposures during early life may have profound consequences for the individual’s life-course health and aging trajectory. Several studies have also revealed that detrimental outcomes of early-life stresses may be transgenerationally transmitted via non-genomic pathways and thereby can influence the adult health status in subsequent generations. The programming effects of early-life adverse conditions may be mediated by epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA cytosine methylation, histone modifications and several RNA-associated regulatory systems. It is generally assumed that the global resetting of epigenetic marks takes place during gametogenesis and embryogenesis. In several cases, however, the epigenetic marks are not completely erased in germ cells, and transgenerational inheritance of epigenetic information can occur. Recent evidence has shown that several epigenetic marks are likely retained and reproduced in the offspring. The aim of this mini-review is to provide a summary of theoretical models and recent experimental and epidemiological findings that indicate that early-life conditions may program the late-life health status and longevity across generations.","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129204342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance indiversification and speciation","authors":"D. Pfennig, M. Servedio","doi":"10.2478/NGI-2013-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/NGI-2013-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Inheritance is crucial to the evolutionary process. Although most evolutionary biologists assume that inheritance occurs exclusively through changes in DNA base sequence, it has long been known that inheritance can also occur through epigenetic mechanisms, such as chromatin marking, maternal effects, parasite transmission, or learning. In recent years, the possibility that such transgenerational epigenetic inheritance mechanisms can mediate long-term evolutionary change has received increased attention. Here, we consider the potential contribution of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in driving diversification and speciation. As we describe, a growing body of theoretical and empirical studies suggests that epigenetic inheritance can accelerate the likelihood that genetic change will occur and thereby facilitate speciation. Additionally, evolution and diversification can potentially unfold based solely upon inherited environmental or learned effects, completely independent of any changes in DNA base sequence. Generally, clarifying whether (and how) epigenetic inheritance promotes––or impedes––diversification and speciation remains a key frontier of evolutionary biology.","PeriodicalId":318193,"journal":{"name":"Non-Genetic Inheritance","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122072729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}