Surviving changing climate conditions is particularly difficult for organisms such as insects
that depend on environmental temperature to regulate their physiological functions. Insects …

Insect heat shock proteins include ATP-independent small heat shock proteins and the
larger ATP-dependent proteins, Hsp70, Hsp90, and Hsp60. In concert with cochaperones …

▪ Abstract Environmental and hormonal regulators of diapause have been reasonably well
defined, but our understanding of the molecular regulation of diapause remains in its …

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their
environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range of …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the modern ecological and evolutionary contexts
of the evolutionary physiology in insects and provides a survey of sources of environmental …

Diapause, the dormancy common to overwintering insects, evokes a unique pattern of gene
expression. In the flesh fly, most, but not all, of the fly's heat shock proteins (Hsps) are up …

The heat shock proteins (Hsps) that are abundantly expressed in insects are important
modulators of insect survival. The expression of different Hsp genes are induced and …

Insects vary considerably in their ability to survive low temperatures. The tractability of these
organisms to experimentation has lead to considerable physiology-based work investigating …

Diapause entails molecular, physiological and morphological remodeling of living animals,
culminating in a dormant state characterized by enhanced stress tolerance. Molecular …

Antarctica's terrestrial environment is a challenge to which very few animals have adapted.
The largest, free-living animal to inhabit the continent year-round is a flightless midge …