Phenotypic adaptation to temperature in the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti

NL Dennington, MK Grossman… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most models exploring the effects of climate change on mosquito‐borne disease ignore
thermal adaptation. However, if local adaptation leads to changes in mosquito thermal …

Assessing the role of family level variation and heat shock gene expression in the thermal stress response of the mosquito Aedes aegypti

F Ware-Gilmore, M Novelo, CM Sgrò… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The geographical range of the mosquito vector for many human disease-causing viruses,
Aedes aegypti, is expanding, in part owing to changing climate. The capacity of this species …

Mosquito thermal tolerance is remarkably constrained across a large climatic range

LI Couper, JE Farner, KP Lyberger… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How mosquitoes may respond to rapid climate warming remains unknown for most species,
but will have major consequences for their future distributions, with cascading impacts on …

Heat tolerance variation reveals vulnerability of tropical herbivore–parasitoid interactions to climate change

C Wenda, JD Gaitán‐Espitia… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the heat tolerance (CTmax) of organisms is central to understand the impact of
climate change on biodiversity. While both environment and evolutionary history affect …

Heat resistance variability in the Lebanese bee fauna

M Boustani, B Martinet, D Michez, N Nemer, P Rasmont - Apidologie, 2024 - Springer
Wild bees are facing many environmental challenges that are resha** their distributions
and even causing extinctions. One of the common threats is climate change leading to a …

[HTML][HTML] How plastic are upper thermal limits? A comparative study in tsetse (family: Glossinidae) and wider Diptera

H Weaving, JS Terblanche, S English - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Critical thermal maximum (CT max) describes the upper thermal tolerance of an animal
where biological functions start to fail. A period of acclimation can enhance CT max through …

Evolutionary adaptation under climate change: Aedes sp. demonstrates potential to adapt to warming

LI Couper, TO Dodge, JA Hemker, BY Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
Climate warming is expected to shift the distributions of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne
diseases, promoting expansions at cool range edges and contractions at warm range …

Multiple blood feeding bouts in mosquitoes allow for prolonged survival and are predicted to increase viral transmission during dry periods

CJ Holmes, S Chakraborty, OM Ajayi, MR Uhran… - iScience, 2025 - cell.com
Dry conditions increase blood feeding in mosquitoes, but it is unknown if dehydration-
induced bloodmeals are increased beyond what is necessary for reproduction. In this study …

Density-dependent ecosystem service delivery under shifting temperatures by dung beetles

N Gotcha, RN Cuthbert, H Machekano… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increases in the frequency and magnitude of suboptimal temperatures as a result of climate
change are subjecting insects to unprecedented stresses. This may negatively affect their …

Thermal tolerance of western corn rootworm: Critical thermal limits, knock-down resistance, and chill coma recovery

KA Roeder, JD Daniels - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is one of the most economically
important crop pests in the world with estimates of damage and control approximating over …