Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These
thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history …

Few environmental factors have a larger influence on animal energetics than temperature, a
fact that makes thermoregulation a very important process for survival. In general …

Purines appear to be the most primitive and widespread chemical messengers in the animal
and plant kingdoms. The evidence for purinergic signalling in plants, invertebrates and …

The thermal dependence of biochemical reaction rates means that many animals regulate
their body temperature so that fluctuations in body temperature are small compared to …

Migraine is the third most prevalent disease on the planet, yet our understanding of its
mechanisms and pathophysiology is surprisingly incomplete. Recent studies have built …

Most terrestrial insect embryos support metabolism with oxygen from the environment by
diffusion across the eggshell. Because metabolism is more temperature sensitive than …

Understanding the mechanisms behind critical thermal maxima (CTmax; the high body
temperature at which neuromuscular coordination is lost) of organisms is central to …

Neuronal excitability of the brain and ongoing homeostasis depend not only on intrinsic
neuronal properties, but also on external environmental factors; together these determine …

Diet composition can affect body temperatures selected by lizards in a thermal gradient
(SBT) but there is very little evidence to support a similar effect due to fasting. The latter …

It is generally accepted that parasites exert negative effects on their hosts and that natural
selection favors specific host responses that mitigate this impact. It is also known that some …