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　　Environmental temperature varies in time and space on

timescales ranging from a few hours to long-term climate change.

Organisms are therefore continually challenged to regulate and

maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment

changes. This volume brings together many of the leading workers in

thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of

molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and

evolutionary biology, to discuss the responses of a wide range of

species to temperature change at all scales of organization,

ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and

ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and

comprehensive contribution to the study of temperature adaptation,

which, given the concern about global climate change, will provide

much to interest a wide range of biologists.

List of contributors

Preface

1. Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical

perspectives and molecular mechanisms A. Y. Gracey, J. Logue, P. E.

Tiku and A. R. Cossins

2. Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects G. Di Prisco and B.

Giardina

3. Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal

optima and tolerance ranges G. N. Somero, E. Dahlhoff and J. J.

Lin

4. Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and

the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model M. E.

Feder

5. Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic

animals A. J. S. Hawkins

6. Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of

mitochondria to temperature H. E. Guderley and J. St Pierre

7. Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish

I. A. Johnston, V. L. A. Vieira and J. Hill

8. Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature D.

Atkinson

9. Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation R. B. Huey and D.

Berrigan

10. Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to

temperature J. A. Mongold, A. F. Bennett and R. E. Lenski

11. Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the

cold? L. Partridge and V. French

12. Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds J. E.

P. W. Bicudo

13. Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology,

interspecific variation and adaptation to climate Z. A.

Eppley

14. Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors

J. Ruben

15. The influence of climate change on the distribution and

evolution of organisms A. Clarke

Index

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Organisms are continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes. Adjustment to temperature change is evident both phenotypically in individual organisms and genotypically in the evolution of species. This volume addresses thermal adaptation by bringing together many of the leading researchers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology. The responses of many species to temperature are discussed in depth, through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, and ecosystem levels. This text stands as an important contribution to the study of temperature adaptation.