Alastair J. Wilson, Jill G. Pilkington, Josephine M. Pemberton, David W. Coltman, Andrew D. J. Overall, Katharine A. Byrne and Loeske E. B. Kruuk Reproductive and early life-history traits can be ...

Parasite-induced changes in host phenotype are now well-documented from a wide range of taxa. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that parasites can also have trans-generational ...

Data included in this analysis are from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe study, and they include asthma status, asthma-like symptoms, and other respiratory symptoms. Asthma and respiratory ...

Using long-term behavioral and hormonal data from wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire, researchers have revealed that mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass ...

The prolonged periods of juvenility and nutritional dependence that are characteristic of human development are thought to facilitate brain and somatic growth in children, as well as provide ...

Cloning using somatic cells has potentially important clinical and therapeutic applications, but the long-term effects of cloning on the offspring of these animals remains unknown. In March Nature ...