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Across mammals, females experiencing adverse conditions during gestation can transfer the stress information to the embryo/fetus via the placenta (circulating glucocorticoids), and induce epigenetic programming of neurological, immune, metabolic, and reproductive functions of the offspring. However, the nature and persistence of such effects (adaptive vs detrimental; short-term vs long-term) is still under debate. My Ph.D.Continue reading “Prenatal maternal stress effects in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)”