Freeze tolerance–the ability to survive internal ice formation–has evolved repeatedly in
insects, facilitating survival in environments with low temperatures and/or high risk of …

All organisms on Earth have evolved biological rhythms to face alternation of periods of
favorable and unfavorable environmental conditions, at various temporal scales. Diapause …

The mosquito Aedes albopictus is an invasive species first detected in Europe in Albania in
1979, and now established in 28 European countries. Temperature is a limiting factor in …

Cold tolerance is a key determinant of insect distribution and abundance, and thermal
acclimation can strongly influence organismal stress tolerance phenotypes, particularly in …

Insects often overcome unfavorable seasons in a hormonally regulated state of diapause
during which their activity ceases, development is arrested, metabolic rate is suppressed …

Diapause, a programmed developmental arrest primarily induced by seasonal
environmental changes, is very common in the animal kingdom, and found in vertebrates …

Background The most species-rich radiation of animal life in the 66 million years following
the Cretaceous extinction event is that of schizophoran flies: a third of fly diversity including …

Phenotypic plasticity is produced and maintained by processes regulating the transcriptome.
While differential gene expression is among the most important of these processes …

Diapause is a common phenotype that is broadly phylogenetically dispersed across I nsecta
and appears to have multiple evolutionary origins. Nevertheless, there are clear …

Many cold-acclimated insects accumulate high concentrations of low molecular weight
cryoprotectants (CPs) in order to tolerate low subzero temperatures or internal freezing. The …