Talk:Paternal effect

Serious cleanup needed:
 * 1) The prose is awful, in places it is entirely meaningless.
 * 2) The relevance of reciprocal effects isn't made clear.
 * 3) What does "evolutionize" mean?  Is it supposed to be "evolve"?

Further, I question whether any of this reflects modern genetics. "Paternal effect" appears 71 times in PubMed. I haven't looked through them in depth, but a lot are just casually using the phrase, not apparently using it as a technical term. I imagine the issue comes from a misunderstanding of the term maternal effect. Joe D (t) 22:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

If you can improve the text please do so. I'll check if content still has the same meaning. I do not understand why the subject should "reflect modern genetics". It's a theoretically predicted and confirmed effect. Until proved wrong it is "modern" (or current) then it becomes obsolete. It also not "misunderstanding of the term maternal effect" - it's directly opposite effect with different mechanisms responsible for it. Sashag 17:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

The content of this page is not an accurate reflection of the meaning of this term. Paternal effect is defined as "paternal effect - A phenotypic attribute is described as showing a paternal effect when the phenotype of an individual is a manifestation of the genotype of the father, rather than the genotype of the individual." This does not need a separate page from "maternal effect", so I have redirected it there. Tim Vickers 16:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)