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title: "5.1.4 Events after maturity"
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After maturity there is the rest of the animal’s life. It will depend on the environmental quality how that will influence the animal’s phenotype. However, the animal has finished development so many of the environmental influences will be reversible. It may start its reproductive life and create its own influences on its offspring. And because it was influenced by its parents, you can imagine that those influences may still be of influence on the development of the animal’s offspring. In fact, these influences of the parents of the animal of the development of its offspring would be trans generational effects. This is a relatively new area of research and not a lot is known about the importance of trans generational effects. An example is that of food deprivation of the mother of the animal during pregnancy or before laying the egg. This will have influenced the development of the animal. And because the development was influenced, this in turn may influence the development of its offspring. For example, if the growth of the animal was restricted and it remained small as adult, this will have influenced the size of the uterus as well, and thus the environment of its developing offspring.