Maternal contributions to offspring development in a changing climate

本项目旨在研究母体对后代发育环境的影响如何影响后代的代谢、学习、生长和生存。该项目希望提供机制和进化的见解，了解由发育环境的变化所带来的代谢功能的变化如何促进学习和生活史的变化。预期的结果包括深入了解母体投资和激素的变化如何影响后代在不同热环境中的发育，以及这些变化是如何通过受损的生理功能介导的-为了解澳大利亚快速变化的气候中的种群持久性提供了重要的好处。

This project aims to investigate how maternal contributions to offspring developmental environments affect metabolism, learning, growth, and survival of offspring. This project expects to provide mechanistic and evolutionary insights into how changes in metabolic function, brought about by changes in the developmental environment, contribute to variation in learning and life-history. Expected outcomes include an in-depth understanding of how changes in maternal investment and hormones impact offspring developing in different thermal environments and how such changes are mediated by compromised physiological function – providing significant benefits in understanding population persistence in Australia's rapidly changing climate.