Maternal effects as adaptations

Part 1: Theoretical Considerations 1. The Evolutionary Genetics of Maternal Effects 2. The Influence of Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects on the Evolution of Behavior: Social and Sexual Selection Meet Maternal Effects 3. Inertial Growth: Population Dynamics Based on Maternal Effects 4. What is Adaptive Environmentally Induced Parental Effect? 5. Oviposition Decisions as Maternal Effects: Conundrums and Opportunities for Conservation Biologists Part 2: Assessment and Measurement 6. The Detection and Measurement of Maternal Effects 7. The Genetics of Maternal Effects 8. The Role of Environmental Variation in Parental Effects Expression Part 3: Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression 9. Maternal Environmental Effects in Plants: Adaptive Plasticity? 10. Maternal Effects as Adaptations for Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity (TPP) 11. Are Maternal Effects in Fish Adaptive or Merely Physiological Side-Effects? 12. Maternal and Paternal Effects in Birds 13. Maternal Influences on Larval Competition in Insects 14. Maternal Effects, Developmental Plasticity, and Life History Evolution: An Amphibial Model 15. Perinatal Influences on the Reproductive Behavior of Adult Rodents Part 4: Case Studies of Maternal Effects 16. Maternal Control of Fly Diapause 17. Adaptation of Maternal Effects in the Wild: Path Analysis of Natural Variation and Experimental Tests of Causation 18. Maternal Effects and the Maintenance of Environmental Sex Determination 19. Density-Mediated Maternal Effects on Seed Size in Wild Radish: Genetic Variation and its Evolutionary Implications Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions