David Berger

This study investigates thermal adaptation in gene expression of Callosobruchus maculatus through experimental evolution, finding genetic compensation dominates cold adaptation while heat adaptation shows mixed modes with greater repeatability.

This study shows that pest evolution under climate change increases crop damage potential more than warming alone, with significant implications for future food security.

The paper shows that composite fitness functions are flawed in variable environments by ignoring the distinct environmental dependence of underlying life-history processes, using empirical data from seed beetles.

This study shows that gene expression changes in aging Drosophila are similar to those caused by reduced physiological condition, suggesting aging is a plastic response to somatic decline.

The paper shows that environmental cues reduce selection against harmful alleles in seed beetles by enabling adaptive maternal care through learning.

This paper reviews literature and analyzes studies showing photoperiodism for diapause induction evolves predictably with latitude, while clinal variation in life history and thermal plasticity is inconsistent across taxa.

The paper tests how temperature affects genomic predictions of adaptation by evolving beetles under hot and cold conditions, finding faster phenotypic evolution at hot temperatures but less genomic repeatability.

The paper models how climate warming affects insect pest life-history traits and agricultural impact using thermodynamics and life-history theory, finding increased pest damage under warming.

The paper shows that developmental variability and genetic variation in wing shape predict deep divergence in fly evolution, suggesting natural selection shapes developmental architectures.

This study examines how germline maintenance varies with reproductive timing in seed beetles, finding that early-reproducing females show peak maintenance at youth while late-reproducing females exhibit the opposite pattern.