In responding to predation risk, secondhand experience can be as good as new

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Throughout the living world, parents have many ways of gifting their offspring with information they will need to help them survive. A new study from University of Illinois in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining the effects of exposure to predators across two generations of stickleback fish yielded a surprising insight into how such transgenerational information is used.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 9, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news