ArticlePhysiological entomology2013
Induction of diapause and seasonal morphs in butterflies and other insects: knowns, unknowns and the challenge of integration.
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- Diapause-Linked Gene Expression Pattern and Related Candidate Duplicated Genes of the Mountain ButterflyInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- Increased Suitability of Poleward Climate for a Tropical Butterfly (Euripus nyctelius) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Accompanies its Successful Range Expansion.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2019Article
- Longer life span is associated with elevated immune activity in a seasonally polyphenic butterfly.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Spatial and habitat variation in aphid, butterfly, moth and bird phenologies over the last half century.Global change biology · 2019Article
- Conceptual framework of the eco-physiological phases of insect diapause development justified by transcriptomic profiling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Preference for C4 shade grasses increases hatchling performance in the butterfly, Bicyclus safitza.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- A Forward Genetic Screen for Molecules Involved in Pheromone-Induced Dauer Formation in Caenorhabditis elegans.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- Seasonal cues induce phenotypic plasticity of Drosophila suzukii to enhance winter survival.BMC ecology · 2016Article
- Characterization of Reproductive Dormancy in MaleFrontiers in physiology · 2016Article
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- Inheritance of diapause in crosses between the northernmost and the southernmost strains of the Asian corn borer Ostrinia furnacalis.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
The 'choice' of whether to enter diapause or to develop directly has profound effects on the life histories of insects, and may thus have cascading consequences such as seasonal morphs and other less obvious forms of seasonal plasticity. Present knowledge of the control of diapause and seasonal morphs at the physiological and molecular levels is briefly reviewed. Examples, mainly derived from personal research (primarily on butterflies), are given as a starting point with the aim of outlining areas of research that are still poorly understood. These include: the role of the direction of change in photoperiod; the role of factors such as temperature and diet in modifying the photoperiodic responses; and the role of sex, parental effects and sex linkage on photoperiodic control. More generally, there is still a limited understanding of how external cues and physiological pathways regulating various traits are interconnected via gene action to form a co-adapted complete phenotype that is adaptive in the wild despite environmental fluctuation and change.
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