Climate change globally perturbs water circulation thereby influencing ecosystems including
cultivated land. Both harmful and beneficial species of insects are likely to be vulnerable to …

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are hydrophobic compounds deposited on the arthropod
cuticle that are of functional significance with respect to stress tolerance, social interactions …

Biodiversity is the sum total of all living things on the earth with particular reference to the
profound variety in structure, function and genetic constitution. It includes both number and …

To advance our understanding of adaptation to temporally varying selection pressures, we
identified signatures of seasonal adaptation occurring in parallel among Drosophila …

Water availability is a major environmental challenge to a variety of terrestrial organisms. In
insects, desiccation tolerance varies predictably over spatial and temporal scales and is an …

Natural selection varies widely among locations of a species' range, favoring population
divergence and adaptation to local environmental conditions. Selection also differs between …

Measuring thermal behavior in smaller insects is particularly challenging. In this study, we
describe a new horizontal thermal gradient apparatus designed to study adult thermal …

During local adaptation with gene flow, some regions of the genome are inherently more
responsive to selection than others. Recent theory predicts that X-linked genes should …

We used experimental evolution to test the 'melanism-desiccation'hypothesis, which
proposes that dark cuticle in several Drosophila species is an adaptation for increased …

Abstract Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF4) is essential for glucose homeostasis and lipid
metabolism in insects. However, little is known about the role of HNF4 in whiteflies. In the …