Mitochondria are key to energy conversion in virtually all eukaryotes. Intriguingly, despite
billions of years of evolution inside the eukaryote, mitochondria have retained their own …

The vast majority of studies employing mt DNA in evolutionary biology and ecology have
used it as a means to infer demographic and historical patterns without pondering the …

Bees are thought to be strict users of carbohydrates as metabolic fuel for flight. Many insects,
however, have the ability to oxidize the amino acid proline at a high rate, which is a unique …

Mitochondria have been suggested to be paramount for temperature adaptation in insects.
Considering the large range of environments colonized by this taxon, we hypothesized that …

The oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) pathway is responsible for most aerobic ATP
production and is the only pathway with both nuclear and mitochondrial encoded proteins …

Changes in environmental temperature can pose considerable challenges to animals and
shifts in thermal habitat have been shown to be a major force driving species' adaptation …

Variation in thermal tolerance plays a key role in determining the biogeographic distribution
of organisms. Consequently, identifying the mechanistic basis for thermal tolerance is …

Cellular and mitochondrial metabolic capacity of the heart has been suggested to limit
performance of fish at warm temperatures. We investigated this hypothesis by studying the …

Linking the mitochondrial genotype and the organismal phenotype is of paramount
importance in evolution of mitochondria. In this study, we determined the differences in …

Ectotherm thermal tolerance is critical to species distribution, but at present the physiological
underpinnings of heat tolerance remain poorly understood. Mitochondrial function is …