Physiological and biochemical adaptations

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

This study shows that cool ocean temperatures do not buffer thermal stress for juvenile Pisaster ochraceus during extreme heat events, leading to increased mortality and reduced feeding.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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