The phrase "affecting the offspring of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the impact of certain factors or conditions on the next generation or descendants.
Example: "The study focused on the environmental changes affecting the offspring of various species in the ecosystem."
Alternatives: "influencing the progeny of" or "impacting the descendants of".
It appeared as though the mare's encounter with the male quagga had permanently altered her, leaving some indelible imprint of 'quagga-ness' that affected the offspring of her later matings.
"Agent orange", a mixture of chemicals including herbicides and dioxin, used by the US Army in the Vietnam war, not only caused devastating disabilities and birth defects in the Vietnamese population, it also affected the offspring of exposed US soldiers.
Pesticides belong to another category of substances widely discussed in literature as affecting sperm quality and chromatin integrity [ 37, 38]; but, potentially also affecting the offspring through preconceptional exposure of the father.
If both these effects would occur simultaneously – both behaviour and gene expression differences in parents and offspring – this would indicate that stress responses acquired in one generation could affect the offspring by means of genomic effects, for example through inter-generational transfer of epigenetic modifications.
In further analyses, children and young adults (0 30 years) were pooled together as one category to allow reasonable statistical power for analyses by specific maternal and paternal regions or country of birth to test the hypothesis that the mother's and the father's background would affect the offspring's risk of type 1 diabetes differently.
Maternal environmental effects occur when the phenotype or growth environment of the mother plant affects the offspring phenotype beyond the direct effect of transmitted genes [ 1, 2].
This, the largest study to date, finds no evidence that exposure to radiation affects the offspring sex ratio among survivors of childhood cancer.
Maternal genetic effects occur if the mother's genotype affects the offspring's phenotype beyond the effects of her genetic contribution to offspring phenotypes.
Maternal depression was not found to independently affect the offspring's methylation status at any of the imprint regulatory regions evaluated.
The correlation analysis, and the number of genes which appeared on the top ranked DE list in both generations suggests that the expression differences induced by UL in the parents were to some extent transferred to the offspring – if the expression of a particular gene was highly affected by the UL, the same gene tended to be similarly affected in the offspring of UL parents.
