The adaptive role of melanin plasticity in thermally variable environments

Thermal costs and benefits of replicated color evolution in the White Sands Desert lizard community

(2022) Alex R. Gunderson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Melanization plasticity of Drosophila kikkawai, Drosophila leontia and reciprocal hybrids under different temperatures

(2022) Divya Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

How and when melanic coloration is an advantage for lizards: the case of three closely-related species of Liolaemus

(2020) Débora Lina Moreno Azócar et al.   ZOOLOGY

Appearance before performance? Nutritional constraints on life‐history traits, but not warning signal expression in aposematic moths

(2019) Carita Lindstedt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The dark side of Lepidoptera: Colour lightness of geometrid moths decreases with increasing latitude

(2018) Lea Heidrich et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ambient temperatures differently influence colour morphs of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica : Roles of thermal melanism and developmental plasticity

(2018) Vitali Zverev et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)

(2018) Manajit Sengupta et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Impact of Yeast Pigmentation on Heat Capture and Latitudinal Distribution

(2018) Radames J.B. Cordero et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Thermal Biology: Melanin-Based Energy Harvesting across the Tree of Life

(2018) Stefan Pinkert et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Climatic factors shape plastic trade-offs in the polyphenic black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica (Diptera: Sepsidae)

(2017) Juan Pablo Busso et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Evolution of plasticity and adaptive responses to climate change along climate gradients

(2017) Joel G. Kingsolver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Infrared thermography: A non-invasive window into thermal physiology

(2016) Glenn J. Tattersall   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

The effect of skin reflectance on thermal traits in a small heliothermic ectotherm

(2016) Genevieve Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Body temperature regulation is associated with climatic and geographical variables but not wing pigmentation in two rubyspot damselflies (Odonata: Calopterygidae)

(2016) Miguel Rivas et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Larval UV exposure impairs adult immune function through a trade-off with larval investment in cuticular melanin

(2015) Sara Debecker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

(2015) C J Murren et al.   HEREDITY

Causes of polymorphic melanism and its thermoregulatory function in a parasitoid wasp Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

(2014) Yosuke ABE et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Fitness Costs of Thermal Reaction Norms for Wing Melanisation in the Large White Butterfly (Pieris brassicae)

(2014) Audrey Chaput-Bardy et al.   PLoS One

The costs of being dark: the genetic basis of melanism and its association with fitness-related traits in the sand cricket

(2013) D. A. Roff et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dual fitness benefits of post-mating sugar meals for female hawkmoths (Hyles lineata)

(2013) Martin von Arx et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

To quiver or to shiver: increased melanization benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth

(2013) R. H. Hegna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thermal environment shapes cuticle melanism and melanin-based immunity in the ground cricket Allonemobius socius

(2012) Kenneth M. Fedorka et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Colour in insect thermoregulation: Empirical and theoretical tests in the colour-changing grasshopper, Kosciuscola tristis

(2012) K.D.L. Umbers et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

A test of the relationship between cuticular melanism and immune function in wild-caught Mormon crickets

(2011) NATHAN W. BAILEY   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Macronutrient balance mediates trade-offs between immune function and life history traits

(2010) Sheena C. Cotter et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

(2009) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   BIOESSAYS

Intraspecific variation in wing and pupal melanization in copper butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

(2009) ISABELL KARL et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Selection for cuticular melanism reveals immune function and life-history trade-offs inSpodoptera littoralis

(2008) S. C. COTTER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sexual selection mediated by the thermoregulatory effects of male colour pattern in the ambush bug Phymata americana

(2007) D. Punzalan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES