B. L. Lockwood

Local thermal environment and warming influence supercooling and drive widespread shifts in the metabolome of diapausing Pieris rapae butterflies

This study examines how warming affects supercooling and metabolome shifts in diapausing Pieris rapae butterflies from different thermal environments.

Aggression and discrimination among closely versus distantly related species of Drosophila

This study investigates aggression between Drosophila species, finding that closely related species show equal aggression toward conspecifics and heterospecifics, while distantly related species are more aggressive toward conspecifics.

Disparate patterns of thermal adaptation between life stages in temperate vs. tropical Drosophila melanogaster

This study compares thermal tolerance in adult and embryonic stages of Drosophila melanogaster across temperate and tropical populations, finding no variation in adult tolerance but higher tropical embryonic tolerance.

Maternal loading of a small heat shock protein increases embryo thermal tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster

This study shows that maternal overexpression of Hsp23 in Drosophila melanogaster increases offspring embryo thermal tolerance and protects against heat-induced larval defects.