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Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.

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Zipple, MN; Archie, EA; Tung, J; Altmann, J; Alberts, SC
Published in: eLife
September 2019

Early life adversity can affect an individual's health, survival, and fertility for many years after the adverse experience. Whether early life adversity also imposes intergenerational effects on the exposed individual's offspring is not well understood. We fill this gap by leveraging prospective, longitudinal data on a wild, long-lived primate. We find that juveniles whose mothers experienced early life adversity exhibit high mortality before age 4, independent of the juvenile's own experience of early adversity. These juveniles often preceded their mothers in death by 1 to 2 years, indicating that high adversity females decline in their ability to raise offspring near the end of life. While we cannot exclude direct effects of a parent's environment on offspring quality (e.g., inherited epigenetic changes), our results are completely consistent with a classic parental effect, in which the environment experienced by a parent affects its future phenotype and therefore its offspring's phenotype.

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eLife

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EISSN

2050-084X

ISSN

2050-084X

Publication Date

September 2019

Volume

8

Start / End Page

e47433

Related Subject Headings

  • Survival Analysis
  • Survival
  • Psychological Distress
  • Prospective Studies
  • Papio
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Historical Trauma
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Zipple, M. N., Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2019). Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons. ELife, 8, e47433. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.47433
Zipple, Matthew N., Elizabeth A. Archie, Jenny Tung, Jeanne Altmann, and Susan C. Alberts. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.ELife 8 (September 2019): e47433. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.47433.
Zipple MN, Archie EA, Tung J, Altmann J, Alberts SC. Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons. eLife. 2019 Sep;8:e47433.
Zipple, Matthew N., et al. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.ELife, vol. 8, Sept. 2019, p. e47433. Epmc, doi:10.7554/elife.47433.
Zipple MN, Archie EA, Tung J, Altmann J, Alberts SC. Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons. eLife. 2019 Sep;8:e47433.

Published In

eLife

DOI

EISSN

2050-084X

ISSN

2050-084X

Publication Date

September 2019

Volume

8

Start / End Page

e47433

Related Subject Headings

  • Survival Analysis
  • Survival
  • Psychological Distress
  • Prospective Studies
  • Papio
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Historical Trauma
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences