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…

Riyad Hakim, Saeed Salem Abstract With the rapid collection of large network data such as biological networks and social networks, it has become very important to develop efficient techniques for network analysis. In many domains, additional attribute data can be associated with entities and relationships in the network, where the network data represents relationships among…

Filip Wierzbick, Robert Kofler, Sarah Signor Abstract Small RNAs produced from transposable element (TE)-rich sections of the genome, termed piRNA clusters, are a crucial component in the genomic defence against selfish DNA. In animals, it is thought the invasion of a TE is stopped when a copy of the TE inserts into a piRNA cluster,…