Keeping time without a spine: What can the insect clock teach us about seasonal adaptation?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1734, 2017, Pages

  Denlinger, David L ^a   Hahn, Daniel A ^b   Merlin, Christine ^c   Holzapfel, Christina M ^d   Bradshaw, William E ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Clock genes; Diapause; Insect photoperiodism; Migration; Seasonal adaptations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIAPAUSE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INSECT; MIGRATION; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL REGION;

HEXAPODA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INSECT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INSECTA; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS;

EID: 85031107411     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0257     Document Type: Review

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