What can plasticity contribute to insect responses to climate change?

CM Sgrò, JS Terblanche… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Plastic responses figure prominently in discussions on insect adaptation to climate change.
Here we review the different types of plastic responses and whether they contribute much to …

Fruit flies: Challenges and opportunities to stem the tide of global invasions

NT Papadopoulos, M De Meyer… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Global trade in fresh fruit and vegetables, intensification of human mobility, and climate
change facilitate fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) invasions. Life-history traits, environmental …

Diapause in univoltine and semivoltine life cycles

H Numata, Y Shintani - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Although it is generally more adaptive for insects to produce additional generations than to
have longer life cycles, some insects produce one or fewer generations per year (univoltine …

Resource allocation and compensation during development in holometabolous insects

D Nestel, NT Papadopoulos… - Journal of Insect …, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide an extensive review on current knowledge and future research paths on the
topic of resource allocation and compensation during development in holometabolous …

Fruit fly invasion: historical, biological, economic aspects and management

NT Papadopoulos - Trapping and the detection, control, and regulation of …, 2014 - Springer
Enhanced by global warming as well as by intense human mobility and trading of
agricultural goods, pest invasions have profound effects on national and regional …

The hitchhiker's guide to Europe: the infection dynamics of an ongoing Wolbachia invasion and mitochondrial selective sweep in Rhagoletis cerasi

H Schuler, K Köppler, S Daxböck‐Horvath… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is a maternally inherited and ubiquitous endosymbiont of insects. It can hijack
host reproduction by manipulations such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) to enhance …

Variation in butterfly diapause duration in relation to voltinism suggests adaptation to autumn warmth, not winter cold

O Lindestad, L von Schmalensee… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The life cycles of animals vary in relation to local climate, as a result of both direct
environmental effects and population‐level variation in plastic responses. Insects often …

Latitudinal variation in diapause duration and post-winter development in two pierid butterflies in relation to phenological specialization

D Posledovich, T Toftegaard, C Wiklund, J Ehrlén… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Diapause plays a central role in insect life cycles by allowing survival during adverse
seasonal conditions as well as synchronizing life cycles with the period of mate and food …

Novel insight in the life cycle of Torymus sinensis, biocontrol agent of the chestnut gall wasp

C Ferracini, E Gonella, E Ferrari, MA Saladini… - BioControl, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Torymus sinensis Kamijo (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) is a biological control agent of
the chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). It is …

Phenotypic plasticity for desiccation resistance, climate change, and future species distributions: will plasticity have much impact?

V Kellermann, SF McEvey, CM Sgrò… - The American …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
While species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the vulnerability of
species to climate change, they do not explicitly indicate the extent to which plastic …