Bennett, M. M., DeBardlabon, K. M., Rinehart, J. P., Yocum, G. D., and Greenlee, K. J. Abstract The success of agriculture relies on healthy bees to pollinate crops. Commercially managed pollinators are often kept under temperature-controlled conditions to better control development and optimize field performance. One such pollinator, the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata, is…

Sarah Signor Abstract Transposable elements are abundant, dynamic components of the genome that affect organismal phenotypes and fitness. In Drosophila melanogaster, they have increased in abundance as the species spread out of Africa, and different populations differ in their transposable element content. However, very little is currently known about how transposable elements differ between individual…

Woods, H. Arthur, Pincebourde, Sylvain, Dillon, Michael E., Terblanche, John S. Abstract Historic approaches to understanding biological responses to climate change have viewed climate as something external that happens to organisms. Organisms, however, at least partially influence their own climate experience by moving within local mosaics of microclimates. Such behaviors are increasingly being incorporated into…

Cambron, Liz. D., Yocum, George. D., Yeater, Kathleen. M., and Greenlee, Kendra. J Abstract Diapause is a non-feeding state that many insects undergo to survive the winter months. With fixed resources, overall metabolism and insulin signaling (IIS) are maintained at low levels, but whether those change in response to seasonal temperature fluctuations remains unknown. The…