Like mother, like offspring: maternal and offspring wound healing correlate in snakes

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dc.contributor.authorHopkins, Brittney Coleen
dc.contributor.authorChin, Stephanie Y.en
dc.contributor.authorWillson, John D.en
dc.contributor.authorHopkins, William A.en
dc.contributor.departmentFish and Wildlife Conservationen
dc.date.accessed2014-02-04en
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-07T18:29:39Zen
dc.date.available2014-02-07T18:29:39Zen
dc.date.issued2013-07en
dc.description.abstractImmune function early in life can be influenced by parental effects and the environment, but it remains unclear how these two factors may interact to influence immunocompetence. We evaluated maternal and environmental contributions to offspring healing ability in a viviparous reptile, the northern watersnake (Nerodia sipedon). We measured wound healing rates, a highly integrative and biologically relevant measure of innate immunity, of females and their offspring collected from sites contaminated with a toxic heavy metal and compared them with those of individuals from reference sites. We found that female watersnakes that healed the fastest produced offspring that also exhibited faster healing rates. However, we detected no influence of environmental pollution on maternal or offspring healing rates. To our knowledge, our study is the first to correlate maternal and offspring wound healing ability in a wild vertebrate.en
dc.description.sponsorshipE. I. DuPont de Nemoursen
dc.identifier.citationHopkins, Brittney C.; Chin, Stephanie Y.; Willson, John D.; et al., "Like mother, like offspring: maternal and offspring wound healing correlate in snakes," J Exp Biol 216, 2545-2547 (2013); doi: 10.1242/_jeb.084202en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.084202en
dc.identifier.issn0022-0949en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25339en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/14/2545.full.pdf+htmlen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCompany of Biologists Ltd.en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectparental effectsen
dc.subjectimmunocompetenceen
dc.subjectmaternal transferen
dc.subjectmercuryen
dc.subjectWATERSNAKES NERODIA-SIPEDONen
dc.subjectIMMUNE FUNCTIONen
dc.subjectTRANSFERRED MERCURYen
dc.subjectIMMUNOCOMPETENCEen
dc.subjectBIOACCUMULATIONen
dc.subjectRESPONSIVENESSen
dc.subjectEXPOSUREen
dc.subjectLATENTen
dc.subjectRIVERen
dc.subjectTITSen
dc.titleLike mother, like offspring: maternal and offspring wound healing correlate in snakesen
dc.title.serialJournal of Experimental Biologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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