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Plasticity of Performance Curves in Ectotherms: Individual Variation Modulates Population Responses to Environmental Change by Seebacher, Frank, Little, Alexander G.

“…Many ectothermic animals can respond to changes in their environment by altering the sensitivities of physiological rates, given sufficient time to do so. In…”
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Physiological Performance Curves: When Are They Useful? by Little, Alexander G, Seebacher, Frank

“…This review serves as an introduction to a special issue of Frontiers in Physiology, focused on the importance of physiological performance curves across…”
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Impacts of sequential salinity and heat stress are recovery time-specific in freshwater crustacean, Daphnia pulicaria by Sun, Xinyu, Arnott, Shelley E, Little, Alexander G

“…Stressors can interact to affect animal fitness, but we have limited knowledge about how temporal variation in stressors may impact their combined effect. This…”
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Thyroid hormone actions are temperature-specific and regulate thermal acclimation in zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Little, Alexander G, Kunisue, Tatsuya, Kannan, Kurunthachalam, Seebacher, Frank

“…Thyroid hormone (TH) is best known for its role in development in animals, and for its control of metabolic heat production (thermogenesis) during cold…”
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Call-to-Action: A Global Consortium for Tropical Cyclone Ecology by Pruitt, Jonathan N., Little, Alexander G., Majumdar, Sharanya J., Schoener, Thomas W., Fisher, David N.

“…Rigorously evaluating of the ecological impacts of cyclones is logistically challenging. Here we issue a call-to-action to organize a global collaboration…”
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Plasticity of Performance Curves Can Buffer Reaction Rates from Body Temperature Variation in Active Endotherms by Seebacher, Frank, Little, Alexander G

“…Endotherms regulate their core body temperature by adjusting metabolic heat production and insulation. Endothermic body temperatures are therefore relatively…”
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What do warming waters mean for fish physiology and fisheries? by Little, Alexander G., Loughland, Isabella, Seebacher, Frank

“…Environmental signals act primarily on physiological systems, which then influence higher‐level functions such as movement patterns and population dynamics…”
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Generalist–specialist trade-off during thermal acclimation by Seebacher, Frank, Ducret, Varlérie, Little, Alexander G., Adriaenssens, Bart

“…The shape of performance curves and their plasticity define how individuals and populations respond to environmental variability. In theory, maximum…”
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Thyroid hormone links environmental signals to DNA methylation by Seebacher, Frank, Little, Alexander G

“…Environmental conditions experienced within and across generations can impact individual phenotypes via so-called 'epigenetic' processes. Here we suggest that…”
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Endocrine responses to environmental variation by Little, Alexander G, Seebacher, Frank

“…Hormones regulate most physiological functions and life history from embryonic development to reproduction. In addition to their roles in growth and…”
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Evolution of mitochondrial-encoded cytochrome oxidase subunits in endothermic fish: The importance of taxon-sampling in codon-based models by Little, Alexander G., Lougheed, Stephen C., Moyes, Christopher D.

“…[Display omitted] ► Convergent molecular evolution as a mechanism for convergent evolution of endothermy in fish. ► Effect of taxon-sampling on codon-based…”
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The evolution of endothermy is explained by thyroid hormone-mediated responses to cold in early vertebrates by Little, Alexander G, Seebacher, Frank

“…The evolution of endothermy is one of the most intriguing and consistently debated topics in vertebrate biology, but the proximate mechanisms that mediated its…”
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Temperature determines toxicity: Bisphenol A reduces thermal tolerance in fish by Little, Alexander G., Seebacher, Frank

“…Bisphenol A (BPA) is a ubiquitous pollutant around the globe, but whether environmental concentrations have toxic effects remains controversial. BPA interferes…”
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Local Regulation of Thyroid Hormone Signaling by Little, Alexander G

“…Thyroid hormone (TH) plays important signaling roles in mammalian growth, development, and thermogenesis. Traditionally its actions were thought to be…”
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A review of the peripheral levels of regulation by thyroid hormone by Little, Alexander G.

“…Thyroid hormone (TH) regulates many physiological processes that differ between tissues, developmental stages and in response to specific environmental cues…”
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Thyroid hormone regulates muscle function during cold acclimation in zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Little, Alexander G, Seebacher, Frank

“…Thyroid hormone (TH) is a universal regulator of growth, development and metabolism during cold exposure in mammals. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), TH regulates…”
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Thyroid hormone regulates cardiac performance during cold acclimation in zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Little, Alexander G, Seebacher, Frank

“…Limitations to oxygen transport reduce aerobic scope and thereby activity at thermal extremes. Oxygen transport in fish is facilitated to a large extent by…”
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Regulation of thermal acclimation varies between generations of the short‐lived mosquitofish that developed in different environmental conditions by Seebacher, Frank, Beaman, Julian, Little, Alexander G, Blanckenhorn, Wolf

“…Environmental variability and perturbations can influence population persistence. It is therefore important to understand whether and how animals can…”
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Skeletal muscle contractile function predicts activity and behaviour in zebrafish by Seebacher, Frank, Little, Alexander G, James, Rob S

“…Locomotion facilitates behaviour and its underlying physiological mechanisms may therefore impact behavioural phenotypes. Metabolism is often thought to…”
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Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance by Anderson, Hannah M, Little, Alexander G, Fisher, David N, McEwen, Brendan L, Culbert, Brett M, Balshine, Sigal, Pruitt, Jonathan N

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