Evolutionary adaptation to temperature and climate depends on both the extent to which
organisms experience spatial and temporal environmental variation (exposure) and how …

What factors influence the ability of populations to adapt to extreme environments that lie
outside their current tolerance limits? We investigated this question by exposing …

Whether the thermal sensitivity of an organism's traits follows the simple Boltzmann-
Arrhenius model remains a contentious issue that centers around consideration of its …

Optimality models collapse the vagaries of genetics into simple trade-offs to calculate
phenotypes expected to evolve by natural selection. Optimality approaches are commonly …

Temperature affects everything that an organism does. Although we have an increasingly
sophisticated understanding of evolutionary adaptation to temperature at the molecular level …

Body temperature influences the performance and fitness of ectotherms. How thermal
sensitivity responds to selection for resistance to high temperature is broadly relevant in …

High temperature inhibits the growth of the wild-type bacteriophage ϕX174. Three different
point mutations were identified that each recovered growth at high temperature. Two …

For over a century, the hypothesis of temperature compensation, the maintenance of similar
biological rates in species from different thermal environments, has remained controversial …

To understand the effects of temperature on biological systems, we compile, organize, and
analyze a database of 1,072 thermal responses for microbes, plants, and animals. The …

We used a clone of the bacterium Escherichia coli previously adapted to 37⚬ C to found
replicate populations propagated at constant 32⚬ C, constant 37⚬ C, constant 42⚬ C, and a …