Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Economic load-carrying in cockroaches

This study examines how cockroaches carry loads economically, finding that they do so within 24 hours and maintain consistent energy costs over 10 days.

Experimental Evolution of the Thermal Performance Curve

This study examines how thermal performance curves (TPCs) of multiple traits evolve in response to increased temperatures in freshwater protists, finding trait-specific adaptations and limited changes in population growth rates.

Developmental temperature drives distinct transcriptomic responses to acute temperatures and correlated differences in thermal tolerance

This study shows that developmental temperature affects transcriptomic responses to acute heat stress and thermal tolerance in copepods.

Elevated temperature during rearing diminishes swimming and disturbs the metabolism of yellow perch larvae

This study shows that elevated rearing temperature reduces swimming ability and disrupts metabolism in yellow perch larvae.

Metabolic stability underpins thermal tolerance in benthic ecotypes of threespine stickleback (Gasterostues aculeatus)

The paper examines how metabolic stability relates to thermal tolerance in two ecotypes of threespine stickleback fish, finding that benthic ecotypes show greater AS stability and survival across temperatures.

High-throughput developmental assay of cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans

The paper develops a high-throughput assay to measure cold tolerance in C. elegans and finds that 24-hour cold exposure increases variation and heritability of cold tolerance during the L1 larval stage.

Functional resurveys and models reveal the interplay of plasticity and evolution of Pierid butterflies in response to recent climate change

The paper evaluates how plasticity and evolution interact in Pierid butterflies in response to climate change, finding differences in thermal adaptation between populations.

Variation in temperature but not diet determines the stability of latitudinal clines in tolerance traits and their plasticity

This study shows that temperature, not diet, shapes latitudinal clines in stress tolerance traits and their plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster.

Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate.

This study examines seasonal coat color changes and sexual size dimorphism in Hong Kong feral cattle, finding paler coats in wet seasons and male-biased dimorphism driven by thermoregulation.

Investigating Bacterial Contributions to Thermal Tolerance in Three Intertidal Marine Snail Tegula species

This study investigates how bacterial microbiomes contribute to thermal tolerance in three intertidal snail species under heat stress.

Amino Acid Substitutions in the Na+/K+-ATPase May Contribute to Salinity Tolerance in Insects

This study investigates whether amino acid substitutions in the Na+/K+-ATPase contribute to salt tolerance in insects using gene-edited Drosophila models, finding that some substitutions enhance tolerance while others do not.

Mechanistic origins of temperature scaling in the early embryonic cell cycle

The paper examines temperature scaling in the early embryonic cell cycle across multiple species, finding similar activation energies and explaining deviations using computational models and experimental data.

Global thermal tolerance of freshwater invertebrates and fish

The paper compiles a thermal tolerance database for freshwater fish and invertebrates, including 5000+ records from 800+ species, to assess thermal risks under current and future environmental conditions.

Gradual Warming Drives Life-History Shifts and Reveals Reproductive Ceilings in Daphnia magna

This study shows that gradual warming causes Daphnia magna to shift life-history traits and reveals reproductive ceilings below lethal limits that affect population persistence.

Transgenerational effects impact the vulnerability of a host-parasitoid system to rising temperatures.

This study examines how transgenerational effects influence the thermal performance of a Drosophila-parasitoid system under climate change, finding they accelerate extinction risk.

Unraveling Hypoxia Tolerance: Transcriptomic and Metabolic Insights from Lucinoma capensis in an Oxygen Minimum Zone

This study examines the transcriptomic and metabolomic responses of Lucinoma capensis to hypoxia and reoxygenation, revealing organ-specific adaptations and symbiotic mechanisms that support survival in oxygen minimum zones.

Highly and lowly domesticated endangered fish from a conservation hatchery diverge in their thermal physiology, transcriptome, and methylome

This study shows that high and low domestication index Delta smelt from a hatchery differ in thermal physiology, transcriptome, and methylome, with domestication increasing thermal tolerance but reducing plasticity.

Energy use efficiency may mediate metabolic thermal adaptation in Daphnia magna

The paper investigates how energy use efficiency (EUE) mediates metabolic thermal adaptation in Daphnia magna, showing EUE adaptation mitigates the effects of resting metabolic rate (RMR) variability on growth rate under thermal stress.

Genes Underlying Adaptive Physiological Shifts Among Hibernating Mammals

The paper identifies genes under selection and evolutionary convergence in hibernating mammals using metabolomic data and bioinformatic analyses.

From cells to organism - how natural selection causes metabolic scaling

This paper introduces a metabolic scaling model that links cellular respiration to organismal metabolism, explaining Kleiber's law through optimized metabolic modules and physicochemical principles.

It is about time: neural temporal scaling accounts for robust hunting behavior across temperatures

This study shows larval zebrafish maintain stable hunting behavior across temperature changes through neural temporal scaling, with spatial parameters remaining invariant.

Assessing the effect of experimental evolution under combined thermal-nutritional stress on larval thermotolerance and thermal plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

This study examines how combined thermal and nutritional stress affects larval thermotolerance and thermal plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster through experimental evolution.

Plasticity, not genetics, shape thermal tolerance in non-native populations of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas)

The paper investigates thermal tolerance and plasticity in invasive European green crabs, finding no significant link between supergene genotype and individual plasticity.

Using aerial thermography to map terrestrial thermal environments in unprecedented detail

This paper introduces a method combining aerial thermography and temperature models to create detailed thermal maps, along with an R package to process the data.

A decision matrix to better identify repeatable physiological variation within individuals

The paper introduces PRAM, a decision matrix to distinguish individual physiological variation from experimental noise, showing aerobic metrics are more repeatable than non-aerobic ones in fish.

RT-qPCR Validation of Candidate Genes Underlying Thermal Adaptation in Drosophila subobscura

The paper validates candidate genes for thermal adaptation in Drosophila subobscura using RT-qPCR, finding that 33.3% of tested genes showed consistent expression patterns with RNA-seq results, highlighting the importance of effect size over expression level.

The body size and fitness match and its variability in plastic response to temperature

The paper investigates how body size and fitness respond to temperature in rotifers, finding that the Temperature-Size Rule operates within a specific thermal range and is influenced by genetic composition.

Endogenous circannual cycles drive seasonal cold hardening in temperate ants

This study shows that endogenous circannual cycles drive seasonal cold hardening in temperate ants, independent of environmental cues, by modulating cold tolerance and metabolomic profiles.

Evidence of physiological assortment and movement dynamics among social groups of a coral reef fish

The paper examines physiological differences and movement patterns among social groups of damselfish, finding habitat-related metabolic trait variations but no site-based differences.

Sex-dependent latent chilling injury changes estimates of thermal tolerance in a model insect

This study shows that latent chilling injury in Drosophila melanogaster is sex-specific and influenced by prior thermal acclimation and recovery temperature.