Physiological and biochemical adaptations

This study shows that cyclic thermal stress during bumblebee pupation reduces adult longevity and causes irreversible developmental damage.

This study examines how different populations of Nematostella vectensis respond transcriptionally to heat and cold stress, finding population-specific responses and a core heat stress response.

This study examines how hypoxia and low temperature affect Drosophila melanogaster physiology and reproduction, finding non-additive effects that vary by genotype.

This study assesses how urbanization affects thermal tolerance in two tropical lizards by analyzing microhabitat temperatures and physiological responses.

This study quantifies the energetic costs of escape in schooling white mullet during predation and finds escape responses are intrinsic and not socially modulated.

This study shows temperature effects from previous life stages influence spring phenology in winter moths, with carryover effects impacting offspring hatching timing.

The paper examines how body size and colour variation in butterfly assemblages across Great Britain relate to seasonal environmental conditions and developmental constraints, finding that both traits align with thermoregulatory needs and seasonal patterns.

This study synthesizes global data on aquatic insect heat tolerance, finding oxygen availability significantly influences their vulnerability to climate change.

The paper combines climate and thermal trait data to assess how intraspecific heat tolerance and local warming rates affect species vulnerability to climate change, finding that existing variation is often insufficient to offset projected warming.

This study shows that winter temperature variability affects energy loss in dormant ectotherms differently depending on the mean temperature, with implications for survival under climate change.

The paper identifies stage-specific transcriptional changes in garden dormouse cerebral cortex during hibernation phases, revealing metabolic and redox adaptations and a reversal during arousal.

The paper uses mass spectrometry to analyze neuropeptide changes in American lobsters under different temperatures, finding tissue-specific peptide abundance shifts linked to thermal adaptation.

The paper compiles thermal performance data from 107 fish species to analyze how thermal traits vary with latitude, habitat, and biological organization.

This study examines how acclimation to different thermal variability regimes affects the activity patterns and energy expenditure of the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus.

The paper examines adaptive tracking in Drosophila suzukii, finding that polygenic traits like thermal tolerance show delayed evolutionary responses, while oligogenic traits exhibit stronger seasonal genomic signatures.

This study shows that ants can improve their thermal safety margins by shifting activity to cooler niches, with greater benefits in lowland areas than uplands.

This study investigates whether the seasonal polyphenism in Araschnia levana is driven by thermoregulation, finding that morphology and coloration influence thermal dynamics but no active thermoregulation occurs.

This study shows that soil copiotrophic bacteria have conserved thermal limits and small safety margins, suggesting limited adaptive potential to warming.

This study investigates how Arctic char adjust their metabolism seasonally to conserve energy in winter and grow in summer, finding that food deprivation and cold temperatures significantly reduce resting energy expenditure.

The paper investigates EMG activity during daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters, finding periodic motility and brain activation linked to thermoregulation and vigilance.

The paper evaluates thermal death time models for Drosophila under fluctuating temperatures, finding that variance in failure times increases with temperature and that models assuming additivity underestimate survival.

The paper identifies a bear-specific coding exon in TMEM41B linked to cold adaptation through comparative genomics and functional analysis.

This study examines how thermal conditions affect metabolic scaling in tufted ghost crabs across different times of day and breathing modes in the Mediterranean Sea.

This study examines how robustness and resilience to cold snaps affect tree swallow fitness using long-term behavioral data.

This study evaluates how data distribution and transformations affect Bayesian inference of thermal performance curves for arthropod lifespans using simulated data.

The paper uses simulations to show that body temperature evolution is constrained by protein thermal performance, leading to predictable patterns of rapid initial change followed by slow adaptation.

The study finds that larger ants in Messor barbarus are more sensitive to temperature changes than smaller ants, which may influence their foraging activity timing and colony responses to warming.

The paper quantifies the trade-off between foraging activity and thermal risk in vulturine guineafowl during resource scarcity and drought.

This study examines energy management strategies in naked mole-rats, finding that within-individual activity and resting metabolic rate are positively correlated, supporting the performance model.