Persistent maternal memory, transient offspring effects: the temporal and sex-specific architecture of heritable heat-stress responses in zebrafish
Anastasiia Berezenko, Dragan Stajic, Simone Oberhaensli, Gary Delalay, Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi, Heike Schmidt‐Posthaus, Irene Adrian‐Kalchhauser
This study maps how heat-stress effects are transmitted through zebrafish generations, showing persistent maternal RNA signatures and transient offspring phenotypes.
bioRxiv · Sep 9, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology