Belinda van Heerwaarden

This study examines how sublethal heat shocks affect fertility in three mosquito species, finding limited effects on female fertility but some impacts on male fertility and offspring production.

This study assesses how heat hardening affects heat tolerance in three mosquito species, finding species- and trait-specific responses to thermal stress.

This study shows that Spiroplasma and heat hardening protect male fertility in Drosophila species under heat stress, reducing climate change risk in D. birchii.

This study shows that elevated temperatures below the lethal limit reduce Aedes aegypti fertility, with effects persisting across generations and being exacerbated by adult exposure to high temperatures.

This study evaluates the impact of Wolbachia strains wAlbB and wMelM on egg retention and viability in Aedes aegypti females under extended egg retention conditions, finding greater negative effects with wMelM.