Physiology

Recent Papers

Ecology and Evolution of Blood Oxygen-Carrying Capacity in Birds

Piotr Minias

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Minias.html

Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers

Ian S. Pearse, Jessica M. Aguilar, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Pearse.html

A General Model for Seed and Seedling Respiratory Metabolism

Heng Huang, Jinzhi Ran, Xiaowei Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Renfei Chen, Fan Wu, Miao Ye, Fei Jia, Karl J. Niklas, and Jianming Deng

Dense Dwarfs versus Gelatinous Giants: The Trade-Offs and Physiological Limits Determining the Body Plan of Planktonic Filter Feeders

Julia Dölger, Thomas Kiørboe, and Anders Andersen

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDoelger.html

Macroevolutionary Patterning in Glucocorticoids Suggests Different Selective Pressures Shape Baseline and Stress-Induced Levels

Maren N. Vitousek, Michele A. Johnson, Cynthia J. Downs, Eliot T. Miller, Lynn B. Martin, Clinton D. Francis, Jeremy W. Donald, Matthew J. Fuxjager, Wolfgang Goymann, Michaela Hau, Jerry F. Husak, Bonnie K. Kircher, Rosemary Knapp, Laura A. Schoenle, and Tony D. Williams

Adaptive Differences in Circadian Clock Gene Expression Patterns and Photoperiodic Diapause Induction in Nasonia vitripennis

Elena Dalla Benetta, Leo W. Beukeboom, and Louis van de Zande

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDallaBenetta.html

Historical Comment

Revisiting a Key Innovation in Evolutionary Biology: Felsenstein’s “Phylogenies and the Comparative Method”

Raymond B. Huey, Theodore Garland Jr., and Michael Turelli

Biophysical Modeling of Water Economy Can Explain Geographic Gradient of Body Size in Anurans

Sidney F. Gouveia, Rafael P. Bovo, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Fernando Rodrigues Da Silva, Natan M. Maciel, Denis V. Andrade, and Pablo Ariel Martinez

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanGouveia.html

Metabolic Theory and the Temperature-Size Rule Explain the Temperature Dependence of Population Carrying Capacity

Joey R. Bernhardt, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecBernhardt.html

The Behavior and Reproductive Physiology of a Solitary Progressive Provisioning Vespid Wasp: Evidence for a Solitary-Cycle Origin of Reproductive Castes

Hans C. Kelstrup, Klaus Hartfelder, Tiago Falcon Lopes, and Theresa C. Wossler

Oxygen Limitation at the Larval Stage and the Evolution of Maternal Investment per Offspring in Aquatic Environments
Njal Rollinson and Locke Rowe
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayRollinson.html

A Dynamic State Model of Migratory Behavior and Physiology to Assess the Consequences of Environmental Variation and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Marine Vertebrates
Enrico Pirotta, Marc Mangel, Daniel P. Costa, Bruce Mate, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Daniel M. Palacios, Luis A. Hückstädt, Elizabeth A. McHuron, Lisa Schwarz, and Leslie New
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebPirotta.html

Thermoregulatory Behavior Simultaneously Promotes and Forestalls Evolution in a Tropical Lizard
Martha M. Muñoz and Jonathan B. Losos
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanMunoz.html

Synthesis
An Ecological Perspective on Sleep Disruption
Kévin Tougeron and Paul K. Abram