... physiology does not remain static during larval ontogeny. Ectotherm Invasive species Lymantria dispar dispar Routine metabolic rate Thermal performance National Institute of Food and Agriculture http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005825 2014-67012-21626 Virginia Commonwealth...

...Maïtena Dumont; Anthony Herrel; Julien Courant; Pablo Padilla; Ron Shahar; Joshua Milgram ABSTRACT Understanding how living tissues respond to changes in their mechanical environment is a key question in evolutionary biology. Invasive species provide an ideal model for this as they are often...

...Pablo Padilla; Anthony Herrel; Mathieu Denoël ABSTRACT Invasive species are characterized by their ability to establish and spread in a new environment. In alien populations of anurans, dispersal and fitness-related traits such as endurance, burst performance and metabolism are key to their success...

... ). In this study, we quantified desiccation resistance in a desiccation-sensitive invasive species and examined several potential drivers of desiccation sensitivity. We found consistent differences among introduced L. humile supercolonies in their ability to resist desiccation. Because the largest supercolony...

... Invasive species Bluegill sunfish National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 1359341 National Institutes of Health http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 R15 CA227573 The genus Lepomis in the order Perciformes and family Centrarchidae contains 13...

...Katharina Bremer; Hitoyoshi Yasuo; Paul Vincent Debes; Howard Trevor Jacobs ABSTRACT Ecological communities and biodiversity are shaped by both abiotic and biotic factors. This is well illustrated by extreme environments and invasive species. Besides naturally occurring sulphide-rich environments...

...Andrea Dissegna; Andrea Caputi; Cinzia Chiandetti ABSTRACT Behavioural flexibility allows adaptation to environmental changes, a situation that invasive species have often to face when colonizing new territories. Such flexibility arises from a set of cognitive mechanisms among which generalization...

... Invasive species Seasonality Thermal performance curves The ranges of most species are not static, but expand and contract throughout their evolutionary history ( Davis and Shaw, 2001 ). A special case of range expansion is when introduced species become invasive, expanding into a previously...

... such as freshwater mussels. However, some species seem to thrive more than others in face of temperature-related stressors. Thermal tolerance may, for example, explain the success of invasive species. It is also known that mitochondria can play a key role in setting an ectothermic species' thermal tolerance...

...: The relationship between digestive physiology and energetic physiology may play an important role in invasive species' success, demonstrated in invasive lionfish ( Pterois spp.) in the context of a warming ocean. Invasive species Metabolic phenotype Specific dynamic action Thermal physiology Temperature...

... generally detrimental, TEs might contribute to the generation of the standing variation, facilitating invasions as suggested for other species ( Schrader et al., 2014 ; Stapley et al., 2015 ). Differentially expressed genes may be relevant to the success of C. monoculus as an invasive species in Lake...

... of early-life exposure to a stress-relevant hormone. Corticosterone Early-life stress Fire ant Invasive species Hemagglutination Lizard The immune system plays a critical role in maintaining health by protecting an organism from pathogens and parasites, repairing damage and responding...

...Hannah Page; Andrew Sweeney; Anna Pilko; Noa Pinter-Wollman ABSTRACT Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population dynamics, the spread of invasive species, species interactions, etc. In social animals, individuals within a group can vary...

...Giovanni Vimercati; Sarah J. Davies; John Measey ABSTRACT Invasive species frequently cope with ecological conditions that are different from those to which they adapted, presenting an opportunity to investigate how phenotypes change across short time scales. In 2000, the guttural toad Sclerophrys...

.....G.E. and D.L.D. interpreted the findings and assisted with the writing. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 11 4 2013 22 7 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 RNA-Seq diapause invasive species metabolism quiescence...

... for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 14 10 2011 © 2012. 2012 albumin chloride shift hemoglobin binding affinity invasive species Lontra canadensis nitric oxide oxygen dissociation curve Two of the most physiologically challenging conditions encountered by air-breathing animals...

...Brent L. Lockwood; Jon G. Sanders; George N. Somero SUMMARY Invasive species are increasingly prevalent in marine ecosystems worldwide. Although many studies have examined the ecological effects of invasives, little is known about the physiological mechanisms that might contribute to invasive...

.... * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 29 10 2009 © 2010. 2010 emerging disease community ecology global change disease ecology parasite invasive species biodiversity ‘Outbreaks most often happen on cultivated or planted land — that is, in habitats...

... overwintering and the environmental consequences. The areas that will be covered in this review are changes in distributions, forecasting the risk of pest outbreaks, and predicting the likelihood of establishment of non-native and invasive species. In each case, the underlying explanations for the observations...

... acclimation temperatures and salinities. These intrinsic differences in basal heart rate, thermal and salinity responses, acclimatory capacity, and survivorship are discussed in the contexts of the species' biogeographic patterning and, for the invasive species M. galloprovincialis , the potential for further...