Maternal contributions to offspring development in a changing climate

本研究旨在探讨母体对后代发育环境的贡献如何影响后代的代谢、学习、生长和存活。该项目旨在提供机制和进化的见解，代谢功能的变化，在发育环境的变化所带来的，有助于学习和生活史的变化。预期成果包括深入了解母体投资和激素的变化如何影响在不同热环境中发育的后代，以及这些变化如何通过受损的生理功能介导-为了解澳大利亚快速变化的气候中的人口持续性提供重大益处。

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.