Winter provides many challenges for insects, including direct injury to tissues and energy
drain due to low food availability. As a result, the geographic distribution of many species is …

Simple Summary Heat shock protein 70 family is widely distributed in all the organisms,
which plays important roles in protein folding and preventing protein denaturation. Heat or …

Maize is a cold-sensitive crop, and it exhibits severe retardation of growth and development
when exposed to cold snaps during and right after seedling emergence. Although different …

The thermotolerance–plasticity trade-off hypothesis predicts that ectotherms with greater
basal thermal tolerance have a lower acclimation capacity. This hypothesis has been tested …

Background Tracing the association between insect cold tolerance and latitudinally and
locally varying environmental conditions, as well as key morphological traits and molecular …

As environments are rapidly reshaped due to climate change, phenotypic plasticity plays an
important role in the ability of organisms to persist and is considered an especially important …

Organisms with complex life cycles demonstrate a remarkable ability to change their
phenotypes across development, presumably as an evolutionary adaptation to …

Cold stress can reduce insect fitness and is an important determinant of species distributions
and responses to climate change. Cold tolerance is influenced by genotype and …

Chill susceptible insects are thought to be injured through different mechanisms depending
on the duration and severity of chilling. While chronic chilling causes “indirect” injury through …

Overwintering presents an ecological challenge to insects given highly contrasting
environments between native versus invaded environments. The capacity for in situ …