Parental Effects and Reproductive Potential of Fish and Marine Invertebrates: Cross-Generational Impact of Environmental Experiences

DOMINGUEZ-PETIT, R.; GARCIA-FERNÁNDEZ, C.; LEONARDUZZI, E.; RODRIGUES, K.; MACCHI, G. J.

Fishes

MDPI Open Access Journals

Año: 2022 vol. 7 p. 1 - 16

2410-3888

The reproductive success of aquatic animals depends on a complex web of relationshipsbetween the environment, the attributes of the reproductive individuals and human-induced selection. All of them are manifested directly or indirectly through parental effects, which can alsocompensate for certain external impacts. Parental effects refer to the influence that the phenotype and environmental conditions in which individuals develop exert on the phenotype of their offspring,and they can even have transgenerational impact. This paper describes the different types of parentaleffects and reviews the published literature to analyze the causes of their variation and their impacton reproductive resilience and population dynamics