Sentences with phrase «affect their offspring through»

I was fascinated to learn that trauma experienced by mice can affect their offspring through epigenetic transfer (6 November, p...

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To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

Consequently, we need a more robust approach to ensure that offspring generated through mitochondrial replacement do not inherit the affected mitochondrial DNA.»

Through DNA testing we can control this genetic disorder now and avoid producing affected offspring.

If a dog is determined to be a carrier of CEA, either through testing or because it has affected offspring, it should be bred but only to a mates that have been tested clear of the mutation.

It's not yet entirely clear if the diesel exhaust affects the development of the offsprings directly or if it affects them indirectly through a modification of the behavior of the mother, but either way, it seems to be bad.

In their theoretical model of intergenerational transmissions of depression from mothers to offspring, Goodman and Gotlib (2001) argue that there are four dominant mechanisms through which depressive symptoms are transferred: heritability of depression, innate dysfunctional neuroregulatory, exposure to mother's negative behaviors and affect, and exposure to stressful environments.