Interactions between pollutants and suboptimal environmental conditions can have severe
consequences for the toxicity of pollutants, yet are still poorly understood. To identify …

We tested the hypothesis whether developmental acclimation at ecologically relevant
humidity regimes (40% and 75% RH) affects desiccation resistance of pre-adults (3rd instar …

Plastic responses to heat and desiccation stress in insects have been studied in many
laboratory experiments on Drosophila. However, in these studies the possible interaction …

Transgenerational effects of stressors can have important implications for offspring fitness
and the responses of offspring to future stressful conditions. Parental effects, a common type …

Drosophila simulans is more abundant under colder and drier montane habitats in the
western Himalayas as compared to its sibling D. melanogaster but the mechanistic bases of …

The organismal response to temperature represents one of the most ubiquitous processes
that occur in the natural world, and this response is critical for survival in most habitats …

Evidence of immune response enhancement after cold exposure suggests that cold
activates the insect immune system. I investigated whether the immune response of …

Parental effects are the effects of the parental phenotype and parental environment on
offspring phenotype that occur without changes in the DNA sequence. Instead, they occur …