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Ecophysiology: responses to environmental stressors and change

In the face of rapid and extensive human-induced environmental change, understanding the mechanistic and adaptive responses of animals to environmental drivers is becoming increasingly important. This collection of papers – a subset of the research JEB has published in this area since 2016 – highlights the biochemical and physiological responses of a variety of organisms – from invertebrates to mammals – exposed to a broad range of environmental factors, including temperature, pH, hypoxia, increasing altitude, UV radiation and dehydration stress.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Temperature-dependent plasticity mediates heart morphology and thermal performance of cardiac function in juvenile Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )

Carlie A. Muir; Shawn R. Garner; Sashko Damjanovski; Bryan D. Neff

16 August 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.244305

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effects of thermal acclimation on the proteome of the planarian Crenobia alpina from an alpine freshwater spring

Joshua Niklas Ebner; Mirjam Kathrin Wyss; Danilo Ritz; Stefanie von Fumetti

11 August 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.244218

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Obligatory homeothermy of mesic habitat-adapted African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio , is governed by seasonal basal metabolism and year-round ‘thermogenic readiness’ of brown adipose tissue

Shaun Welman; Martin Jastroch; Nomakwezi Mzilikazi

04 July 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243860

COMMENTARY

Understanding how variable thermal environments affect the molecular mechanisms underlying temperature-sensitive phenotypes: lessons from sex determination

Ryan T. Paitz; Anthony T. Breitenbach; Rosario A. Marroquín-Flores; Rachel M. Bowden

31 May 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.242373

REVIEW

Global change and physiological challenges for fish of the Amazon today and in the near future

Adalberto Luis Val; Chris M. Wood

18 May 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.216440

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effects of ocean acidification over successive generations decrease resilience of larval European sea bass to ocean acidification and warming but juveniles could benefit from higher temperatures in the NE Atlantic

Sarah Howald; Marta Moyano; Amélie Crespel; Luis L. Kuchenmüller; Louise Cominassi; Guy Claireaux; Myron A. Peck; Felix C. Mark

05 May 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243802

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Inactivity and the passive slowing effect of cold on resting metabolism as the primary drivers of energy savings in overwintering fishes

Connor Reeve; Lauren E. Rowsey; Ben Speers-Roesch

21 April 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243407

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Two stressors are worse than one: combined heatwave and drought affect hydration state and glucocorticoid levels in a temperate ectotherm

Mathias Dezetter; Jean-François Le Galliard; Mathieu Leroux-Coyau; François Brischoux; Fréderic Angelier; Olivier Lourdais

19 April 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243777

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Impact of fluctuating developmental temperatures on phenotypic traits in reptiles: a meta-analysis

Rebecca S. Raynal; Daniel W. A. Noble; Julia L. Riley; Alistair M. Senior; Daniel A. Warner; Geoffrey M. While; Lisa E. Schwanz

08 March 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243369

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Keeping your cool: thermoregulatory performance and plasticity in desert cricetid rodents

Richard W. Ramirez; Eric A. Riddell; Steven R. Beissinger; Blair O. Wolf

04 March 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243131

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Irreversible impact of early thermal conditions: an integrative study of developmental plasticity linked to mobility in a butterfly species

Anaïs Degut; Klaus Fischer; Martin Quque; François Criscuolo; Peter Michalik; Michaël Beaulieu

01 February 2022

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243724

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Thermal–metabolic phenotypes of the lizard Podarcis muralis differ across elevation, but converge in high-elevation hypoxia

Brooke L. Bodensteiner; Eric J. Gangloff; Laura Kouyoumdjian; Martha M. Muñoz; Fabien Aubret

14 December 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243660

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Thermal performance curves for aerobic scope in a tropical fish ( Lates calcarifer ): flexible in amplitude but not breadth

Hanna Scheuffele; Francesc Rubio-Gracia; Timothy D. Clark

13 December 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243504

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Local thermal environment and warming influence supercooling and drive widespread shifts in the metabolome of diapausing Pieris rapae butterflies

Emily E. Mikucki; Brent L. Lockwood

22 November 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243118

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Mitochondrial capacity and reactive oxygen species production during hypoxia and reoxygenation in the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica

Jennifer B. M. Steffen; Fouzia Haider; Eugene P. Sokolov; Christian Bock; Inna M. Sokolova

09 November 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243082

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Diet mediates thermal performance traits: implications for marine ectotherms

Emily A. Hardison; Krista Kraskura; Jacey Van Wert; Tina Nguyen; Erika J. Eliason

02 November 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.242846

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Body temperature is a repeatable trait in a free-ranging passerine bird

Simon Tapper; Joseph J. Nocera; Gary Burness

22 October 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243057

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Membrane lipid metabolism, heat shock response and energy costs mediate the interaction between acclimatization and heat-hardening response in the razor clam Sinonovacula constricta

Wenyi Zhang; Yunwei Dong

05 October 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.243031

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Disentangling environmental drivers of circadian metabolism in desert-adapted mice

Jocelyn P. Colella; Danielle M. Blumstein; Matthew D. MacManes

27 September 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.242529

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Thermal stress induces tissue damage and a broad shift in regenerative signaling pathways in the honey bee digestive tract

Dunay M. Bach; Miriam A. Holzman; Fatoumata Wague; JJ L. Miranda; Allison J. Lopatkin; Jennifer H. Mansfield; Jonathan W. Snow

23 September 2021

Doi: 10.1242/jeb.242262

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