期刊
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 7, 期 9, 页码 2925-2935出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2887
关键词
ecological immunology; environmental stressors; hatching success; maternal effects; phenotypic plasticity; transgenerational immune priming
资金
- National Science Foundation [1460628]
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1460628] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Parental investment theory postulates that adults can accurately perceive cues from their surroundings, anticipate the needs of future offspring based on those cues, and selectively allocate nongenetic resources to their progeny. Such context-dependent parental contributions can result in phenotypically variable offspring. Consistent with these predictions, we show that bacterially exposed Manduca sexta mothers oviposited significantly more variable embryos ( as measured by mass, volume, hatching time, and hatching success) relative to naive and control mothers. By using an in vivo clearance of infection assay, we also show that challenged larvae born to heat-killed-or live-Serratia-injected mothers, supported lower microbial loads and cleared the infection faster than progeny of control mothers. Our data support the notion that mothers can anticipate the future pathogenic risks and immunological needs of their unborn offspring, providing progeny with enhanced immune protection likely through transgenerational immune priming. Although the inclusion of live Serratia into oocytes does not appear to be the mechanism by which mothers confer protection to their young, other mechanisms, including epigenetic modifications in the progeny due to maternal pathogenic stress, may be at play. The adaptive nature of maternal effects in the face of pathogenic stress provides insights into parental investment, resource allocation, and life-history theories and highlights the significant role that pathogen-induced maternal effects play as generators and modulators of evolutionary change.
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