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Circadian rhythmicity and photoperiodism in the pitcher-plant mosquito: adaptive response to the photic environment or correlated response to the seasonal environment?W E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
Am Nat 161:735-48. 2003..We conclude that expression of the circadian clock is necessary neither for the central mechanism of photoperiodic time measurement nor for the adaptive modification of critical photoperiod...
The contribution of an hourglass timer to the evolution of photoperiodic response in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiW E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
Evolution 57:2342-9. 2003....
Adaptation to temperate climatesWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
Evolution 58:1748-62. 2004....
Circadian rhythmicity and photoperiodism in the pitcher-plant mosquito: can the seasonal timer evolve independently of the circadian clock?W E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
Am Nat 167:601-5. 2006..We conclude that the photoperiodic timing of seasonal events can evolve independently of the daily circadian clock...
Genetic shift in photoperiodic response correlated with global warmingW E Bradshaw
Ecology and Evolution Program, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1210, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:14509-11. 2001..W. smithii represents an example of actual genetic differentiation of a seasonality trait that is consistent with an adaptive evolutionary response to recent global warming...
Genetic response to rapid climate change: it's seasonal timing that mattersW E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Mol Ecol 17:157-66. 2008....
Epistasis underlying a fitness trait within a natural population of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
Genetics 169:485-8. 2005..Line crosses reveal that there exists within a population, diverse epistatic variation for a fitness trait that could contribute to adaptive potential following founder events or rapid climate change...
Genetic correlations and the evolution of photoperiodic time measurement within a local population of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiW E Bradshaw
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 108:473-9. 2012....
Geographic variation and the evolution of reproductive allocation in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiP Armbruster
Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97402 1210, USA
Evolution 55:439-44. 2001..These results implicate temperature as a selective factor influencing the geographic variation of egg size in W. smithii, and demonstrate a novel trade-off in reproductive allocation between egg size and egg maturation time...
Geographic and developmental variation in expression of the circadian rhythm gene, timeless, in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiD Mathias
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Insect Physiol 51:661-7. 2005....
Reproductive value in a complex life cycle: heat tolerance of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiP A Zani
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
J Evol Biol 18:101-5. 2005..Consequently, reproductive value appears to have been of little consequence in the evolution of stage-specific tolerance of heat stress in W. smithii...
What season is it anyway? Circadian tracking vs. photoperiodic anticipation in insectsWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
J Biol Rhythms 25:155-65. 2010..Finally, the authors propose that circadian-unbiased, forward genetic approaches should be used to identify genes involved in photoperiodism within extant populations and among populations over evolutionary time...
Microarrays reveal early transcriptional events during the termination of larval diapause in natural populations of the mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e9574. 2010..We use a forward genetic approach to investigate transcriptional events involved in the termination of diapause following exposure to long-days...
Light, time, and the physiology of biotic response to rapid climate change in animalsWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Annu Rev Physiol 72:147-66. 2010....
Environmental control of ovarian dormancy in natural populations of Drosophila melanogasterKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:825-9. 2009..We conclude that ovarian dormancy in D. melanogaster is a temperature-initiated syndrome of winter-tolerant traits that represents an adaptive phenotypic plasticity in temperate seasonal environments...
Complications of complexity: integrating environmental, genetic and hormonal control of insect diapauseKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Trends Genet 25:217-25. 2009..Understanding the genetic basis for environmental control of diapause has wider implications for evolutionary response to rapid climate change and for the opportunity to observe evolutionary change in contemporary time...
Evolution of photoperiodic time measurement is independent of the circadian clock in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:385-91. 2009..smithii has not been causally mediated by a corresponding evolution of the circadian clock...
Extrinsic light:dark cycles, rather than endogenous circadian cycles, affect the photoperiodic counter in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 194:611-5. 2008....
Concordance of the circadian clock with the environment is necessary to maximize fitness in natural populationsKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
Evolution 62:979-83. 2008....
Quantitative trait loci associated with photoperiodic response and stage of diapause in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiDerrick Mathias
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 5289, USA
Genetics 176:391-402. 2007..smithii. Finally, we highlight one region of the genome that includes loci contributing to CPP, SOD, and hormonal regulation of development...
Evolutionary divergence of circadian and photoperiodic phenotypes in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiDerrick Mathias
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Biol Rhythms 21:132-9. 2006..smithii. The implication is that in this species, genetic modification of the circadian clock has not been the basis for the adaptive modification of photoperiodic time measurement over the climatic gradient of North America...
Geography of the circadian gene clock and photoperiodic response in western North American populations of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatusC O'BRIEN
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Fish Biol 82:827-39. 2013..Hence, caution is urged when interpreting variation in the polyglutamine repeat (PolyQ) domain of the gene clock in the context of seasonal activities or in relationship to photoperiodism along geographical gradients...
Latitudinal variation in photoperiodic response of the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in western North AmericaQ S Yeates-Burghart
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
J Fish Biol 75:2075-81. 2009..Increasing reliance on photoperiod with increasing latitude is a general phenomenon among vertebrates, and is probably due to the anticipation of a narrower window of opportunity for reproduction and development at higher latitudes...
Circadian clock genes, ovarian development and diapauseWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
BMC Biol 8:115. 2010..However, their observations could also be the result of pleiotropic effects of the individual clock genes.See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/116...
Climate change. Evolutionary response to rapid climate changeWilliam E Bradshaw
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Science 312:1477-8. 2006
Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencingKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:16196-200. 2010....
