Date of Award

2017

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Awarded

Master of Science (MS)

Program

Zoology

Department

Biological Sciences

College

Science and Mathematics

Faculty Advisor

Dochtermann, Ned

Description

Phenotypic variation, or the total variation in a trait, and its components are of great importance in the fields of evolutionary and behavioral ecology. Phenotypic variation can be broken down into both environmental and genetic influences on that particular trait. However, due to an increasing trend of quantitative genetics in behavioral studies, researchers have begun to consider lesser studied components of phenotypic variation in addition to the commonly studied direct environmental and genetic influences. Some of these lesser studied components include maternal and paternal effects, or the effect that parental phenotype has on their offspring’s phenotype. In Chapter 1, I examine the impacts of direct environmental manipulation on cricket song production. For Chapter 2 however, instead of examining the direct environmental influence at the individual level, I examine, through meta-analysis, how the indirect environmental influences that occur at both the maternal and paternal level impact offspring phenotype across taxa.

Rights

NDSU Policy 190.6.2

Rights Link

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Author ORCID Identifier

0000-0002-9875-5027

Handle Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28695

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