Animals and Temperature: Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511721854

Environmental temperature varies in time and space on timescales ranging from a few hours to long-term climate change. Organisms are therefore continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes. This volume brings together many of the leading workers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology, to discuss the responses of a wide range of species to temperature change at all scales of organization, ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and comprehensive contribution to the study of temperature adaptation, which, given the concern about global climate change, will provide much to interest a wide range of biologists.

‘… well written and absorbing … It is rare that a book manages to bring together such a diverse assembly of researchers and produce as coherent an account as this. It can be recommended.’

Mark Fellowes Source: Biologist

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Preface
pp xii-xvi
- By Ian A. Johnston, (St Andrews), Albert F. Bennett, (Irvine)
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Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms
pp 1-22
- By A.Y. Gracey, J. Logue, P.E. Tiku, A.R. Cossins
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Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects
pp 23-52
- By G. Di Prisco, B. Giardina
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Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges
pp 53-78
- By G.N. Somero, E. Dahlhoff, J.J. Lin
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Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model
pp 79-102
- By M.E. Feder
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Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic animals
pp 103-126
- By A.J.S. Hawkins
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Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature
pp 127-152
- By H.E. Guderley, J. St Pierre
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Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish
pp 153-182
- By I.A. Johnston, V.L.A. Vieira, J. Hill
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Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature
pp 183-204
- By D. Atkinson
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Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation
pp 205-238
- By R.B. Huey, D. Berrigan
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Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature
pp 239-264
- By J.A. Mongold, A.F. Bennett, R.E. Lenski
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Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold?
pp 265-292
- By L. Partridge, V. French
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Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds
pp 293-312
- By J.E.P.W. Bicudo
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Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology, interspecific variation and adaptation to climate
pp 313-346
- By Z.A. Eppley
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Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors
pp 347-376
- By J. Ruben
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The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of organisms
pp 377-408
- By A. Clarke
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Index
pp 409-419
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of contributors
pp ix-xi

Preface
pp xii-xvi

Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms
pp 1-22

Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects
pp 23-52

Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges
pp 53-78

Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model
pp 79-102

Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic animals
pp 103-126

Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature
pp 127-152

Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish
pp 153-182

Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature
pp 183-204

Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation
pp 205-238

Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature
pp 239-264

Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold?
pp 265-292

Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds
pp 293-312

Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology, interspecific variation and adaptation to climate
pp 313-346

Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors
pp 347-376

The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of organisms
pp 377-408

Index
pp 409-419

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