Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen

WCEP Verberk, D Atkinson, KN Hoefnagel… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is central to ecology at levels ranging from organismal fecundity to the functioning
of communities and ecosystems. Understanding temperature‐induced variations in body …

The multidimensional nutritional niche

GE Machovsky-Capuska, AM Senior… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
The dietary generalist–specialist distinction plays a pivotal role in theoretical and applied
ecology, conservation, invasion biology, and evolution and yet the concept remains poorly …

Stochastic developmental variation, an epigenetic source of phenotypic diversity with far-reaching biological consequences

G Vogt - Journal of Biosciences, 2015 - Springer
This article reviews the production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the
same environment by stochastic cellular events, nonlinear mechanisms during patterning …

Hypoxia and high temperature as interacting stressors: will plasticity promote resilience of fishes in a changing world?

ML Earhart, TS Blanchard, AA Harman… - The Biological …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Determining the resilience of a species or population to climate change stressors is an
important but difficult task because resilience can be affected both by genetically based …

Metabolic heterogeneity and cross-feeding in bacterial multicellular systems

CR Evans, CP Kempes, A Price-Whelan… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Cells in assemblages differentiate and perform distinct roles. Though many pathways of
differentiation are understood at the molecular level in multicellular eukaryotes, the …

Developmental phenotypic plasticity helps bridge stochastic weather events associated with climate change

W Burggren - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The slow, inexorable rise in annual average global temperatures and acidification of the
oceans are often advanced as consequences of global change. However, many …

Phenotypic switching resulting from developmental plasticity: fixed or reversible?

WW Burggren - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The prevalent view of developmental phenotypic switching holds that phenotype
modifications occurring during critical windows of development are “irreversible”–that is …

Variation is function: Are single cell differences functionally important? Testing the hypothesis that single cell variation is required for aggregate function

H Dueck, J Eberwine, J Kim - BioEssays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is a growing appreciation of the extent of transcriptome variation across individual
cells of the same cell type. While expression variation may be a byproduct of, for example …

“Bet hedging” against climate change in developing and adult animals: roles for stochastic gene expression, phenotypic plasticity, epigenetic inheritance and …

WW Burggren, JF Mendez-Sanchez - Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Animals from embryos to adults experiencing stress from climate change have numerous
mechanisms available for enhancing their long-term survival. In this review we consider …

Information theory in vertebrate stress physiology

C Zimmer, HA Woods, LB Martin - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Information theory has been applied productively across biology, but it has been used
minimally in endocrinology. Here, we advocate for the integration of information theory into …