Dept of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1998 Oct 1;13(10):403-7. doi: 10.1016/s0169-5347(98)01472-4.
Recently, the adaptive significance of maternal effects has been increasingly recognized. No longer are maternal effects relegated as simple `troublesome sources of environmental resemblance' that confound our ability to estimate accurately the genetic basis of traits of interest. Rather, it has become evident that many maternal effects have been shaped by the action of natural selection to act as a mechanism for adaptive phenotypic response to environmental heterogeneity. Consequently, maternal experience is translated into variation in offspring fitness.
最近，人们越来越认识到母体效应的适应意义。母体效应不再被简单地视为“令人烦恼的环境相似性来源”，从而混淆了我们准确估计感兴趣性状遗传基础的能力。相反，很明显，许多母体效应已经被自然选择塑造，成为对环境异质性进行适应性表型反应的一种机制。因此，母体经验转化为后代适应性的差异。
