... lipids in order to cope with starvation stress. Tropical drosophilid Developmental acclimation Adult acclimation Heat acclimation Humidity acclimation In the wild habitats of diverse insect taxa, incidence of food shortage is associated with seasonal changes in abiotic conditions...

...E. Ophir; Y. Arieli; J. Marder; M. Horowitz SUMMARY The heat-acclimated rock pigeon is thought to use cutaneous water evaporation (CWE) as the `preferred' route for heat dissipation, and this mechanism is controlled by adrenergic signaling. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis...