Adaptive and maladaptive consequences of larval stressors for metamorphic and postmetamorphic traits and fitness

R Stoks, L Janssens, V Delnat, J Swaegers… - … : Darwinian fitness and …, 2022 - Springer
We synthesized how stressors encountered in the larval stage affect larval growth and
development rates, metamorphic traits and eventually carry over across metamorphosis and …

Increased daily temperature fluctuations overrule the ability of gradual thermal evolution to offset the increased pesticide toxicity under global warming

J Verheyen, V Delnat, R Stoks - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The widespread evidence that global warming can increase species sensitivities to chemical
toxicants, and vice versa, and the recent insight that thermal evolution may mitigate these …

Temperature‐and latitude‐specific individual growth rates shape the vulnerability of damselfly larvae to a widespread pesticide

K Dinh Van, L Janssens, S Debecker… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change and pollution. One key
challenge for aquatic toxicology is to determine and manage the combined effects of …

Integrating the pace‐of‐life syndrome across species, sexes and individuals: covariation of life history and personality under pesticide exposure

S Debecker, I Sanmartín‐Villar… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The pace‐of‐life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis integrates covariation of life‐history traits
along a fast–slow continuum and covariation of behavioural traits along a proactive–reactive …

Exposure to a heat wave under food limitation makes an agricultural insecticide lethal: a mechanistic laboratory experiment

KV Dinh, L Janssens, R Stoks - Global Change Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme temperatures and exposure to agricultural pesticides are becoming more frequent
and intense under global change. Their combination may be especially problematic when …

Current and future daily temperature fluctuations make a pesticide more toxic: Contrasting effects on life history and physiology

J Verheyen, R Stoks - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
There is increasing concern that climate change may make organisms more sensitive to
chemical pollution. Many pesticides are indeed more toxic at higher mean temperatures …

Chlorpyrifos-induced oxidative damage is reduced under warming and predation risk: Explaining antagonistic interactions with a pesticide

L Janssens, R Stoks - Environmental Pollution, 2017 - Elsevier
Interactions with pollutants and environmental factors are poorly studied for physiological
traits. Yet physiological traits are important for explaining and predicting interactions at …

Adverse effects of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on the physiology of a damselfly only occur at the cold and hot extremes of a temperature gradient

J Verheyen, K Cuypers, R Stoks - Environmental pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecotoxicological studies considerably improved realism by assessing the toxicity of
pollutants at different temperatures. Nevertheless, they may miss key interaction patterns …

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Alpha6 Contributes to Antiviral Immunity via IMD Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster

Z Wang, X Lin, W Shi, C Cao - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Currently, insecticides that target nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) are widely used.
Studies on the sublethal effects of insecticides have found that they can affect the amount of …

Extreme temperatures in the adult stage shape delayed effects of larval pesticide stress: a comparison between latitudes

L Janssens, KD Van, R Stoks - Aquatic Toxicology, 2014 - Elsevier
Global warming and pesticide pollution are major threats for aquatic biodiversity. Yet, how
pesticide effects are influenced by the increased frequency of extreme temperatures under …