ReviewFrontiers in physiology2020
Lifelong Effects of Thermal Challenges During Development in Birds and Mammals.
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- Developmental Stage-Specific Responses to Extreme Climatic Events and Environmental Variability in Great Tit Nestlings.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Early life-stage thermal resilience is determined by climate-linked regulatory variation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The effects of temperature on nestling growth in a songbird depend on developmental constraints.PloS one · 2026Article
- Mechanistic insights into avian and chiropteran thermal risk exposure in a warming world.Conservation physiology · 2026Review
- The Complex Relationship Between High Temperatures and Avian Breeding Success: Insights From a Global Review.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Postnatal development in the cold render bird mitochondria more susceptible to heat stress.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Limited evidence that body size shrinking and shape-shifting alleviate thermoregulatory pressures in a warmer world.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The hippo pathway: a molecular bridge between environmental cues and pace of life.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Linking warmer nest temperatures to reduced body size in seabird nestlings: possible mitochondrial bioenergetic and proteomic mechanisms.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Cooperative breeding does not mitigate declines in offspring care with cool and wet conditions in a temperate Australian songbird.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Heat shock protein gene expression varies among populations but does not strongly track recent environmental conditions: implications for biomarker development.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- From eggs to adulthood: sustained effects of early developmental temperature and corticosterone exposure on physiology and body size in an Australian lizard.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Trait-specific sensitive developmental windows: Wing growth best integrates weather conditions encountered throughout the development of nestling Alpine swifts.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Constitutive immune function is not associated with fuel stores in spring migrating passerine birds.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Endocrine flexibility can facilitate or constrain the ability to cope with global change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Thermoregulatory consequences of growing up during a heatwave or a cold snap in Japanese quail.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Developing affordable and efficient heating devices for enhanced live cell imaging in confocal microscopy.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Before they develop competent endothermy, mammals and birds are sensitive to fluctuating temperature. It follows that early life thermal environment can trigger changes to the ontogeny of thermoregulatory control. At the ecological level, we have incomplete knowledge of how such responses affect temperature tolerance later in life. In some cases, changes to pre- and postnatal temperature prime an organism's capacity to meet a corresponding thermal environment in adulthood. However, in other cases, developmental temperature seems to constrain temperature tolerance later in life. The timing, duration, and severity of a thermal challenge will determine whether its impact is ameliorating or constraining. However, the effects influencing the transition between these states remain poorly understood, particularly in mammals and during the postnatal period. As climate change is predicted to bring more frequent spells of extreme temperature, it is relevant to ask under which circumstances developmental thermal conditions predispose or constrain animals' capacity to deal with temperature variation. Increasingly stochastic weather also implies increasingly decoupled early- and late-life thermal environments. Hence, there is a pressing need to understand better how developmental temperature impacts thermoregulatory responses to matched and mismatched thermal challenges in subsequent life stages. Here, we summarize studies on how the thermal environment before, and shortly after, birth affects the ontogeny of thermoregulation in birds and mammals, and outline how this might carry over to temperature tolerance in adulthood. We also identify key points that need addressing to understand how effects of temperature variation during development may facilitate or constrain thermal adaptation over a lifetime.
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