Editing Maternal effect (section)

===Further examples of adaptive maternal effects===

In many insects:
* Cues such as rapidly cooling temperatures or decreasing daylight can result in offspring that enter into a dormant state. They therefore will better survive the cooling temperatures and preserve energy.<ref name=adaptivesignificance>{{cite journal |vauthors=Mousseau TA, Fox CW |title=The adaptive significance of maternal effects |journal=Trends in Ecology & Evolution |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=403–7 |year=1998 |pmid=21238360 |doi=10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01472-4 |bibcode=1998TEcoE..13..403M }}</ref>
* When parents are forced to lay eggs on environments with low nutrients, offspring will be provided with more resources, such as higher nutrients, through an increased egg size.<ref name=seedbeetle/>
* Cues such as poor habitat or crowding can lead to offspring with wings. The wings allow the offspring to move away from poor environments to ones that will provide better resources.<ref name=adaptivesignificance/>