UTA biologists provide first evidence that constant environmental stress causes organisms to program behavioral changes in future generations
Researchers have known for decades that the environmental stress experienced by one generation induces changes in behavior, shape, biochemical properties and rates of development of their offspring. But the precise ecological conditions that produced these responses were not known.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have now provided the first evidence that stable environments like constant predator threats, not unstable conditions, generate these non-genetic “trans-generational responses” in the next generation.
“These results have broad implications for
