Thermal regime during parental sexual maturation, but not during offspring rearing, modulates DNA methylation in brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis)

CJ Venney, KW Wellband… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epigenetic inheritance can result in plastic responses to changing environments being
faithfully transmitted to offspring. However, it remains unclear how epigenetic mechanisms …

Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior in Drosophila

M Li, DS Chen, IP Junker, FI Szorenyi, GH Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Courtship interactions are remarkably diverse in form and complexity among species. How
neural circuits evolve to encode new behaviors that are functionally integrated into these …

Determinants of the temperature adaptation of mRNA degradation

V Jaquet, S Wallerich, S Voegeli, D Túrós… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The rate of chemical reactions increases proportionally with temperature, but the interplay of
biochemical reactions permits deviations from this relation and adaptation. The degradation …

Temperature has an overriding role compared to photoperiod in regulating the seasonal timing of winter moth egg hatching

NE van Dis, L Salis, ME Visser - Oecologia, 2024 - Springer
To accurately predict species' phenology under climate change, we need to gain a detailed
mechanistic understanding of how different environmental cues interact to produce the …

Temperature sensitivity of Notch signaling underlies species-specific developmental plasticity and robustness in amniote brains

T Nomura, K Nagao, R Shirai, H Gotoh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ambient temperature significantly affects developmental timing in animals. The temperature
sensitivity of embryogenesis is generally believed to be a consequence of the thermal …

Effects of the egg incubation environment on turtle carapace development

GA Cordero, K Birk, S Ruane… - Evolution & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Developing organisms are often exposed to fluctuating environments that destabilize tissue‐
scale processes and induce abnormal phenotypes. This might be common in species that …

Gastrulation and hatch as critical thermal windows for salmonid embryo development

J Bloomer, JJ Anderson, D Sear… - River Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and impoundment increase river temperatures, shifting the bioclimatic
envelope in which freshwater biota have evolved and increasing salmonid egg mortality. To …

Exploring the adaptability of the secondary structure of mRNA to temperature in intertidal snails based on SHAPE experiments

YJ Zhu, ML Liao, YW Dong - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT RNA-based thermal regulation is an important strategy for organisms to cope
with temperature changes. Inhabiting the intertidal rocky shore, a key interface of the ocean …

Targeting river operations to the critical thermal window of fish incubation: Model and case study on Sacramento River winter‐run Chinook salmon

JJ Anderson, WN Beer, JA Israel… - River Research and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Allocating reservoir flows to meet societal and ecosystem needs under increasing water
demands and climatic variability presents challenges to resource managers. Often, rivers …

[HTML][HTML] Two mechanisms for the spontaneous emergence, execution, and reprogramming of chemical logic circuits

Z Peng, ZR Adam - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
A key question in origin-of-life research is how primitive life or life-like systems obtained
reusable and reprogrammable machinery of processing information to respond to various …