ReviewEcology and evolution2019
Snails in the sun: Strategies of terrestrial gastropods to cope with hot and dry conditions.
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- Winter Activity and Dormancy of Snails: Freezing and Food Shortage Avoidance Strategy Facing Snow-Cover Shortage.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Population Dynamics of the Exotic FlatwormEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Shell colour luminance of Cuban painted snails, Polymita picta and Polymita muscarum (Gastropoda: Cepolidae).PloS one · 2025Article
- Bacterial Diversity Associated with Terrestrial and Aquatic Snails.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Thermal Impact and the Relevance of Body Size and Activity on the Oxygen Consumption of a Terrestrial Snail,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Consumption of Rodenticide Baits by Invertebrates as a Potential Route into the Diet of Insectivores.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Aestivation in Nature: Physiological Strategies and Evolutionary Adaptations in Hypometabolic States.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Coping with drought? Effects of extended drought conditions on soil invertebrate prey and diet selection by a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Exposure to thermal extremes favors higher solar reflectivity in intertidal gastropods.iScience · 2022Article
- De novo genome assembly and genome skims reveal LTRs dominate the genome of a limestone endemic Mountainsnail (Oreohelix idahoensis).BMC genomics · 2022Article
- Thermobiological effects of temperature-induced color variations inEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Mid- and long-term responses of land snail communities to the intensification of mountain hay meadows management.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Can Estivation Preferences Be Used to Develop Novel Management Tools against Invasive Mediterranean Snails?Insects · 2021Article
- The Neglected Angio-Neurotrophic ParasitePathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Evolution of Hemocyanin Genes in Caenogastropoda: Gene Duplications and Intron Accumulation in Highly Diverse Gastropods.Journal of molecular evolution · 2021Article
- Shell colour diversification induced by ecological release: A shift in natural selection after a migration event.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Terrestrial gastropods do not only inhabit humid and cool environments but also habitat in which hot and dry conditions prevail. Snail species that are able to cope with such climatic conditions are thus expected to having developed multifaceted strategies and mechanisms to ensure their survival and reproduction under heat and desiccation stress. This review paper aims to provide an integrative overview of the numerous adaptation strategies terrestrial snails have evolved to persist in hot and dry environments as well as their mutual interconnections and feedbacks, but also to outline research gaps and questions that remained unanswered. We extracted relevant information from more than 140 publications in order to show how biochemical, cellular, physiological, morphological, ecological, thermodynamic, and evolutionary parameters contribute to provide an overall picture of this classical example in stress ecology. These mechanisms range from behavioral and metabolic adaptations, including estivation, to the induction of chaperones and antioxidant enzymes, mucocyte and digestive gland cell responses and the modification and frequency of morphological features, particularly shell pigmentation. In this context, thermodynamic constraints call for processes of complex adaptation at varying levels of biological organization that are mutually interwoven. We were able to assemble extensive, mostly narrowly focused information from the literature into a web of network parameters, showing that future work on this subject requires multicausal thinking to account for the complexity of relationships involved in snails' adaptation to insolation, heat, and drought.
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