Physiological and biochemical adaptations

This study examines how temperature affects the transcriptome of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, identifying gene expression patterns and their implications for mosquito physiology and malaria transmission.

This paper re-examines the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis, finding a thermoregulatory tradeoff between liver and brain proportions in mammals, and proposes a model of brain size evolution based on metabolic rates and microRNA families.

This study examines alcohol tolerance and Adh gene frequencies in Drosophila populations across India, finding clinal variation linked to latitude and ecological niches.

This study quantitatively synthesizes data on thermal tolerance and acclimation capacity of amphibians and freshwater fishes to identify drivers and patterns of physiological sensitivity to climate change.

This study identifies loci influencing thermal performance curves in Neurospora crassa and finds weak evidence of trade-offs between alleles at different temperatures.

This study examines sex-specific gene and microRNA expression responses to temperature changes in four Drosophila species, finding greater male bias at the same temperature and more female differentially expressed genes with temperature shifts.

This study shows maternal effects on offspring traits in Drosophila change with developmental stage, decreasing or reversing in direction as offspring mature.

This study examines cold tolerance in two Rhagoletis species from different host fruits and elevations, finding conserved supercooling points and survival at low temperatures.

This study examines how mountain pine beetle larvae maintain ion balance during cold exposure and finds that ionoregulatory collapse limits their cold tolerance.

This study identifies species differences in glycerol-3-phosphate metabolism between brown and mountain hares, revealing metabolic adaptations to climate.

The paper shows that shrinking and shape-shifting in birds do not provide thermoregulatory benefits in a warming world, using experimental data on Japanese quail.

The paper introduces a method to correct systematic errors in PO2 measurements to improve the accuracy of oxygen supply capacity calculations.

The paper analyzes animal stoichiometry across species and body sizes, finding body size better predicts intraspecific than interspecific variation in elemental content.

This study examines gene expression and physiological responses to water deprivation in the desert cactus mouse, identifying key pathways and adaptive mechanisms.

This study examines the metabolic responses of common waxbills to cold temperatures in their native range, identifying a metabolic inflection point at 16°C that may indicate an adaptive energy-saving strategy.

This study shows how parasite infection affects thermal tolerance and survival in fish under different temperature conditions.

This study presents a new model explaining metabolic scaling in small life forms, showing how metabolic rates scale with cell size and predicting a transition point between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

This study shows that fluctuating temperatures worsen nutritional stress in Drosophila populations, with tropical populations more affected than temperate ones.

This study manipulates ambient temperatures during gestation in Red-sided garter snakes to assess climate change impacts, finding reduced gestation length and increased neonate body mass under warmer conditions.

This study investigates salinity adaptation in minnows exposed to saline effluents using transcriptomic analysis of brain, gills, and liver tissues.

The paper examines metabolic and molecular changes in Sorex araneus during seasonal shrinkage, identifying shifts in oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid metabolism, and FOXO signaling.

The paper compares the transcriptomic heat stress responses of desert and temperate ants to identify convergent and specific adaptations to thermal stress.

The paper shows that developmental warming alters transcriptomic network organisation in fishes, with lasting effects on gene interaction entropy and future temperature responsiveness.

This study shows triploid Pacific oysters have higher mortality and stress response dysregulation than diploids during marine heatwaves.

The paper examines thermal stress effects on embryos of two nassariid species and finds that maternal experience can condition a developmental braking mechanism in T. obsoleta to improve larval survival under heat stress.

The paper shows that higher temperatures reduce transcriptional plasticity in lake sturgeon populations, with southern populations showing greater plasticity than northern ones.

This paper shows heat stress in zebrafish embryos leads to stress metabolite release, which induces stress responses in naive receivers through distinct molecular pathways.

This study identifies neural circuits in the hypothalamus that regulate torpor by mapping torpor-activated neurons and analyzing their connectivity.