Evolutionary Ecology of Wolbachia Releases for Disease Control

PA Ross, M Turelli, AA Hoffmann - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic Alphaproteobacteria that can suppress insect-borne
diseases through decreasing host virus transmission (population replacement) or through …

Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change

C Lahondère, M Bonizzoni - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Physiological and behavioral adaptations to changes in environmental
temperature have been identified in Aedes spp. mosquitoes.•Quantitative data on Aedes …

Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism

HF Wootton, JR Morrongiello, T Schmitt… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fish and other ectotherms living in warmer waters often grow faster as juveniles, mature
earlier, but become smaller adults. Known as the temperature‐size rule (TSR), this pattern is …

Assessing insect flight behavior in the laboratory: a primer on flight mill methodology and what can be learned

SE Naranjo - Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Dispersal is a key component in the population ecology and dynamics of insects and
remains one of the most difficult and intractable ecological processes to study in the field. As …

A comprehensive assessment of inbreeding and laboratory adaptation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

PA Ross, NM Endersby‐Harshman… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reared in laboratories are being released around the
world to control wild mosquito populations and the diseases they transmit. Several efforts …

Rapid and repeated climate adaptation involving chromosome inversions following invasion of an insect

LJ Ma, LJ Cao, JC Chen, MQ Tang… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Following invasion, insects can become adapted to conditions experienced in their invasive
range, but there are few studies on the speed of adaptation and its genomic basis. Here, we …

Chill coma recovery of Ceratitis capitata adults across the Northern Hemisphere

CA Moraiti, E Verykouki, NT Papadopoulos - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae), is an invasive
pest, that is currently expanding its geographic distribution from the Mediterranean coasts to …

[HTML][HTML] Video analysis of the locomotory behaviour of Aedes aegypti and Ae. japonicus mosquitoes under different temperature regimes in a laboratory setting

R Ziegler, WU Blanckenhorn, A Mathis… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mosquito-borne diseases impose a high burden on human and animal health. Temperature
strongly influences the physiology and life cycle of mosquitoes, but also the development …

“Bet hedging” against climate change in developing and adult animals: roles for stochastic gene expression, phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic inheritance and …

WW Burggren, JF Mendez-Sanchez - Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Animals from embryos to adults experiencing stress from climate change have numerous
mechanisms available for enhancing their long-term survival. In this review we consider …

Multigenerational exposure to warming and fishing causes recruitment collapse, but size diversity and periodic cooling can aid recovery

HF Wootton, A Audzijonyte… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Global warming and fisheries harvest are significantly impacting wild fish stocks, yet their
interactive influence on population resilience to stress remains unclear. We explored these …