...) on bumble bee ( Bombus impatiens ) survival and heat tolerance. We found that both prolonged (5 h) heat stress and nutrition limitation were negatively correlated with worker bee survival and thermal tolerance. However, the effects of these acute stressors were not long lasting (no difference in thermal...

.... , McWilliams , S. R. and McGraw , K. J. ( 2013 ). The importance of antioxidants for avian fruit selection during autumn migration . Wilson J. Ornithol. 125 , 513 - 525 . 10.1676/13-014.1 Bairlein , F. ( 2002 ). How to get fat: nutritional mechanisms of seasonal fat accumulation...

...Hue Dinh; Ida Lundbäck; Sheemal Kumar; Anh The Than; Juliano Morimoto; Fleur Ponton ABSTRACT Nutrition is a central factor influencing immunity and resistance to infection, but the extent to which nutrition during development affects adult responses to infections is poorly understood. Our study...

...Meghan M. Bennett; Ashley C. Welchert; Mark Carroll; Sharoni Shafir; Brian H. Smith; Vanessa Corby-Harris ABSTRACT Nutrition supports social insect colonies by regulating both individual performance and colony growth. In honey bee colonies, task-related behaviors such as nursing and foraging...

... rhythms and sex differences in the locomotor activity of hawkmoths . J. Exp. Biol. 220 , 1472 - 1480 . 10.1242/jeb.143966 Brodbeck , B. and Strong , D. ( 1987 ). Amino acid nutrition of herbivorous insects and stress to host plants . In Insect Outbreaks (ed. P. Barbosa...

...Makaylee K. Crone; Christina M. Grozinger ABSTRACT In honey bees ( Apis mellifera ), there is growing evidence that the impacts of multiple stressors can be mitigated by quality nutrition. Pollen, which is the primary source of protein and lipids in bee diets, is particularly critical...

... or reproduction during early adulthood, providing a system in which to determine how variation in physiological demands, determined by sex and life history strategy, impact nutritional targets, plus the consequences of nutritionally imbalanced diets across life stages. We hypothesized that high demands...

... they can be reliably interpreted, a better understanding of the causes for their variation is needed. Anthropogenic Endocrinology Environmental stress Nutrition Oxidative stress As urban environments expand and rapidly encroach on natural habitats, it is increasingly important...

..., taste and ethanol concentration. Both sexes showed an ethanol preference that was abolished on high nutrient concentration diets. Additionally, manipulating total food intake without altering the nutritive value of the base diet or the ethanol concentration was sufficient to evoke or eliminate ethanol...

... reproduction and foraging in solitary insects, in particular the nutritional status of individuals, have been co-opted to regulate division of labour in colonies of social insects. * Author for correspondence ( Abel.Bernadou@ur.de ) Competing interests The authors declare no competing or financial...

... Paternal effects Nutrition No embryo develops independently of its environment. From the onset of the developmental process, the embryo is subject to environmental fluctuations that may prompt responses which in turn leave a long-lasting imprint on the developed organism. This general hypothesis...

... the resources available to the parasite ( Ayres and Schneider, 2009 ; Murray and Murray, 1979 ). Infections, immune responses and nutrition are intimately related and influence disease risk and outcome in animal populations ( Chandra and Newberne, 1977 ; Gershwin, 2012 ). Indeed, restricted access to food...

... into their digestive and nutritive physiology, but methodological challenges and key knowledge gaps remain. Digestion Evolution Feeding Hagfish Nutrition Slime Every aspect of an animal's biology is shaped either directly or indirectly by the processes of feeding, digestion and nutrient assimilation...

.... We show that loss of Acer disrupts the normal response of sleep to changes in nutrition. Other nutrient-sensitive phenotypes, including survival and glycogen storage, were also altered in the Acer mutant but lipid storage was not. Although the physiological substrate of the ACER peptidase has...

... energy expenditure and nutrient delivery for lactation . In Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation (ed. M. D.   McCue ), pp. 309 - 336 . New York : Springer-Verlag . Chandra , R. K. ( 1983 ). Nutrition, immunity, and infection: present knowledge...

... plasticity by diverting resources from non-vital to vital traits such as spatial memory to enhance foraging efficiency. We tested in young feral pigeons ( Columba livia ) how diets of different nutritional value during development affect the capacity to retrieve food hidden in a spatially complex environment...

... recognized to inhibit cell proliferation ( Chantranupong et al., 2015 ; Holley and Kiernan, 1974 ; Honarmand et al., 2016 ; Pardee, 1974 ), and in humans, as well as other species, nutritional deprivation decreases number of neurons in the developing fetal brain ( Gerorgieff, 2007 ). Our data show...

... to investigate the fitness consequences of parental care. Improving the nutritional condition of nest-guarding males increased their reproductive success by reducing premature nest abandonment. However, supplemental feeding and cortisol treatment had no effect on parental care behaviours. Cortisol treatment...

..., we tested whether food deprivation during development of the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), a eusocial insect model, can shift adult phenotypes to better cope with nutritional stress. After subjecting fifth instar worker larvae to short-term starvation, we measured nutrition-related morphology...

... queen and worker phenotypes are determined by differential nutrition (nutrient rich versus nutrient restricted) during the larval stage, then the queens and workers stay in two nutritionally divergent environments (nutrient rich versus nutrient poor), and perform different social tasks (within colony...