Evolutionary concepts in ecotoxicology: tracing the genetic background of differential cadmium sensitivities in invertebrate lineages

Cadmium and Its Epigenetic Effects

(2012) B. Wang et al.   CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Influence of adaptive evolution of cadmium tolerance on neutral and functional genetic variation in Orchesella cincta

(2012) Dalila Costa et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Epigenetics for ecotoxicologists

(2012) Jessica A. Head et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

RESPONSE TO SELECTION ON COLD TOLERANCE IS CONSTRAINED BY INBREEDING

(2012) Anneke Dierks et al.   EVOLUTION

The impact of transposable elements on eukaryotic genomes: From genome size increase to genetic adaptation to stressful environments

(2012) Benoît Chénais et al.   GENE

Two types of ATPases from the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei in response to environmental stress

(2012) Lei Wang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Transgenerational Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on Immune Defense of the Blow Fly Protophormia terraenovae

(2012) Mari Pölkki et al.   PLoS One

Shaping mechanisms of metal specificity in a family of metazoan metallothioneins: evolutionary differentiation of mollusc metallothioneins

(2011) Òscar Palacios et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Micro-evolution of toxicant tolerance: from single genes to the genome’s tangled bank

(2011) Nico M. van Straalen et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Environmental epigenetics in metal exposure

(2011) Ricardo Martinez-Zamudio et al.   Epigenetics

Metallothionein protein evolution: a miniassay

(2011) Mercè Capdevila et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

(2011) J. K. Colbourne et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetic Effect of Cadmium on Global De Novo DNA Hypomethylation in the Cadmium-Induced Ventral Body Wall Defect (VBWD) in the Chick Model

(2011) Takashi Doi et al.   TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of cadmium on life-cycle parameters in a multi-generation study with Chironomus riparius following a pre-exposure of populations to two different tributyltin concentrations for several generations

(2010) Christian Vogt et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Adaptive responses and latent costs of multigeneration cadmium exposure in parasite resistant and susceptible strains of a freshwater snail

(2010) Christopher J. Salice et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

The two Caenorhabditis elegans metallothioneins (CeMT-1 and CeMT-2) discriminate between essential zinc and toxic cadmium

(2010) Sukaina Zeitoun-Ghandour et al.   FEBS Journal

Decreased detoxification genes and genome size make the human body louse an efficient model to study xenobiotic metabolism

(2010) S. H. Lee et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Additive vs non-additive genetic components in lethal cadmium tolerance of Gammarus (Crustacea): Novel light on the assessment of the potential for adaptation to contamination

(2009) Arnaud Chaumot et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Land use, genetic diversity and toxicant tolerance in natural populations of Daphnia magna

(2009) Anja Coors et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Molecular mechanisms of heavy metal tolerance and evolution in invertebrates

(2009) Thierry K. S. Janssens et al.   Insect Science

Epigenetics and transgenerational transfer: a physiological perspective

(2009) D. H. Ho et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Coping with cadmium exposure in various ways: the two Helicid snailsHelix pomatiaandCantareus aspersusshare the metal transcription factor-2, but differ in promoter organization and transcription of their Cd-metallothionein genes

(2009) M. Höckner et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Adaptive differences in gene expression associated with heavy metal tolerance in the soil arthropodOrchesella cincta

(2009) DICK ROELOFS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Structural and bioinformatic analysis of the Roman snail Cd-Metallothionein gene uncovers molecular adaptation towards plasticity in coping with multifarious environmental stress

(2009) MARGIT EGG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Darwin's bridge between microevolution and macroevolution

(2009) David N. Reznick et al.   NATURE

Demographic Responses to Multigeneration Cadmium Exposure in Two Strains of the Freshwater Gastropod, Biomphalaria glabrata

(2008) Christopher J. Salice et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Transcriptome profiling of developmental and xenobiotic responses in a keystone soil animal, the oligochaete annelid Lumbricus rubellus

(2008) Jennifer Owen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Variation in sensitivity to cadmium among genetically characterized laboratory strains of the midge Chironomus riparius

(2008) Carsten Nowak et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Rapid genetic erosion in pollutant-exposed experimental chironomid populations

(2008) Carsten Nowak et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Comparative Population Analysis of Metallothionein Promoter Alleles Suggests Stress-induced Microevolution in the Field

(2008) Thierry K. S. Janssens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Aquatic insect ecophysiological traits reveal phylogenetically based differences in dissolved cadmium susceptibility

(2008) D. B. Buchwalter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genes and environment — Striking the fine balance between sophisticated biomonitoring and true functional environmental genomics

(2008) Christian E.W. Steinberg et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Using Arabidopsis to explore zinc tolerance and hyperaccumulation

(2008) Nancy H.C.J. Roosens et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE