Adaptive evolution is critical for animal populations to thrive in the fast-changing natural
environments. Ectotherms are particularly vulnerable to global warming and, although their …

Adaptive evolution is key in mediating responses to global warming and may sometimes be
the only solution for species to survive. Such evolution will expectedly lead to changes in the …

The onset of an overwintering strategy to overcome cold temperatures of a species of
ectotherms can include remaining active or entering diapause. This in turn will depend on …

Understanding thermal performance at life stages that limit persistence is necessary to
predict responses to climate change, especially for ectotherms whose fitness (survival and …

Phenotypic plasticity can help organisms cope with changing thermal conditions and it may
depend on which life-stage the thermal stress is imposed: for instance, exposure to stressful …

Adaptation to increasingly warmer environments may be critical to avoid extinction. Whether
and how these adaptive responses can arise is under debate. Though several studies have …

Local adaptation is commonly cited to explain species distribution, but how fitness varies
along continuous geographical gradients is not well understood. Here, we combine thermal …

Thermal plasticity can help organisms coping with climate change. In this study, we analyse
how laboratory populations of the ectotherm species Drosophila subobscura, originally from …

Abstract Changes in gene regulation at multiple levels may comprise an important share of
the molecular changes underlying adaptive evolution in nature. However, few studies have …

In insects, thermal adaptation works on the genetic variation for thermotolerance of not only
larvae and adults but also of the immobile stages of the life cycle including eggs. In contrast …