... and there is ambiguity in the term ‘cost of plasticity’. Here, we systematically review the literature to investigate the prevalence of costs associated with phenotypic plasticity in ectothermic animals. We categorized studies into those assessing ‘costs of phenotype’ (trade-offs between different plastic trait values...

...Simon Chouinard-Boisvert; Léopold Ghinter; Amélie St-Pierre; Mathieu Mortz; Véronique Desrosiers; France Dufresne; Jean-Claude Tardif; Johnny Huard; Pascal Sirois; Samuel Fortin; Pierre U. Blier ABSTRACT Heart failure is among the first major consequences of heat stress in aquatic ectotherms...

...Samantha S. Fontaine; Kevin D. Kohl ABSTRACT Climate change and increasing global temperatures are a leading threat to ectothermic animals worldwide. Ectotherm persistence under climate change will depend on a combination of host and environmental factors; recently it has become clear that host...

... that allows a deeper understanding of connectivity and the impacts of climate change in biological systems. Ectotherms Endotherms Species Habitat Unifying principles Experimental studies Human habitat Climate change Thermal tolerance Performance Oxygen and capacity limited thermal tolerance...

... corticosterone level in pregnant aspic vipers, which may subsequently influence offspring growth. Allostasis Dehydration Ectotherms Glucocorticoids Maternal effects Reproductive effort Allostasis integrates an organism's functional responses to predictable and/or unpredictable environmental...

... Ectotherms Maternal effects Oogenesis Polychaetes Thermal tolerance limits In most natural environments, abiotic conditions show multi-dimensional variation, changing temporally and/or spatially over short or long time scales or distances ( Levins, 1968 ). Species have evolved different...

...C. Hemmer-Brepson; L. Replumaz; C. Romestaing; Y. Voituron; M. Daufresne Temperature is well known to affect many biological and ecological traits, especially in ectotherms. From a physiological point of view, temperature is also positively correlated to metabolism and is often associated...

... regulation by catecholamines has been thoroughly investigated in mammals, but little information is available for ectotherms. Therefore, the goals of this study were, first, to characterize the effects of the catecholamines norepinephrine(NE) and epinephrine (Epi) on the lipolytic rate of intact rainbow...

... an additional checkpoint for TCA flux regulation. Further investigations are required to determine whether temperature-dependent allosteric regulation by ATP is a general feature of ectotherm aconitases and whether the degree of this temperature dependence may differ between eurytherms (such as oysters...

... in Membrane Fluidity - Physiological Regulation of Membrane Fluidity , vol. 3 (ed. R. C. Aloia , C. C. Curtain & L. M. Gordon ), pp. 149 – 188 . New York : Alan R. Liss . Hazel , J. R. ( 1989 ). Cold adaptation in ectotherms: regulation of membrane function and cellular...