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| R B HueySummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Neuroscience and evolution. Snake sodium channels resist TTX arrestRaymond B Huey
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, USA
Science 297:1289-90. 2002
Hypoxia, global warming, and terrestrial late Permian extinctionsRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Science 308:398-401. 2005..It also might have delayed ecosystem recovery after the mass extinction...
Lizard thermal biology: do genders differ?Raymond B Huey
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Am Nat 170:473-8. 2007..For desert lizards, gender differences in thermal biology are the exception, not the rule. Nevertheless, gender differences should be examined when feasible because exceptions--though likely rare--could be biologically interesting...
Effects of age and gender on success and death of mountaineers on Mount EverestRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Biol Lett 3:498-500. 2007..On Mount Everest, phenotypic selection appears blind to gender but favours young mountaineers...
Sexual size dimorphism in a Drosophila clade, the D. obscura groupRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
Zoology (Jena) 109:318-30. 2006..obscura data may be limited by low statistical power...
Climate warming and environmental sex determination in tuatara: the last of the Sphenodontians?Raymond B Huey
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:2181-3. 2008
Bart's familiar quotations: the enduring biological wisdom of George A. BartholomewRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 1800, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 81:519-25. 2008..Here we present some of his most insightful and important quotations, group them thematically, and comment on their original context and their continuing relevance...
Behavioral drive versus behavioral inertia in evolution: a null model approachRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Am Nat 161:357-66. 2003....
Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warmingRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, University of Washington, PO Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:1939-48. 2009..Forest lizards are key components of tropical ecosystems, but appear vulnerable to the cascading physiological and ecological effects of climate warming, even though rates of tropical warming may be relatively low...
Partial thermoregulatory compensation by a rapidly evolving invasive species along a latitudinal clineRaymond B Huey
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 1800, USA
Ecology 90:1715-20. 2009..The observed pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that geographic shifts in Tb may be an evolutionary driver of latitudinal clines in this invading species...
Rapid evolution of a geographic cline in size in an introduced flyR B Huey
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
Science 287:308-9. 2000..Nevertheless, different wing sections dominate the New versus Old World clines. Thus, the evolution of geographic variation in wing length has been predictable, but the means by which the cline is achieved is contingent...
Limits to human performance: elevated risks on high mountainsR B Huey
Department of Zoology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
J Exp Biol 204:3115-9. 2001..Although these patterns are based on non-experimental and uncontrolled data, our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that increasing altitude is associated with decreased success and with increased risk of death...
Rapid evolution of wing size clines in Drosophila subobscuraG W Gilchrist
Department of Biology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699 5805, USA
Genetica 112:273-86. 2001..02 haldanes (2800 darwins), a value similar in magnitude to the synchronic estimates from the extremes of the cline. This paper represents an expanded analysis of data partially presented in Huey et al. (2000)...
Ecology. Putting the heat on tropical animalsJoshua J Tewksbury
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Science 320:1296-7. 2008
Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitudeCurtis A Deutsch
Program on Climate Change and Department of Oceanography and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:6668-72. 2008..Our analyses imply that, in the absence of ameliorating factors such as migration and adaptation, the greatest extinction risks from global warming may be in the tropics, where biological diversity is also greatest...
Parental and developmental temperature effects on the thermal dependence of fitness in Drosophila melanogasterG W Gilchrist
Department of Zoology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699 5805, USA
Evolution 55:209-14. 2001..Flies with hot parents have high fitness seemingly because their own offspring develop relatively quickly, not because they have higher fecundity early in life...
Locomotor performance of Drosophila melanogaster: interactions among developmental and adult temperatures, age, and geographyP Gibert
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 1800, USA
Evolution 55:205-9. 2001..Thus, walking performance is highly dynamic phenotypically, complicating potential attempts to predict responses to selection on performance...
Thermodynamics constrains the evolution of insect population growth rates: "warmer is better"M R Frazier
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 1800, USA
Am Nat 168:512-20. 2006..Our findings suggest that adaptation to temperature inevitably alters the population dynamics of insects. This result has broad evolutionary and ecological consequences...
Life history consequences of temperature transients in Drosophila melanogasterMichael E Dillon
Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
J Exp Biol 210:2897-904. 2007..However, the severity and especially the timing of the transient will probably determine the likelihood of carry-over effects as well as its effect on fitness...
A time series of evolution in action: a latitudinal cline in wing size in South American Drosophila subobscuraGeorge W Gilchrist
Department of Biology, Box 8795, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 8795, USA
Evolution 58:768-80. 2004..Thus, although the evolution of overall wing size is predictable on a geographic scale (at least for females), the evolution of size of particular wing components is decidedly not...
Thermodynamic effects on organismal performance: is hotter better?Michael J Angilletta
Department of Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 83:197-206. 2010..Nevertheless, the thermodynamic effect on maximal performance varies greatly among traits and taxa, suggesting the need to develop a more sophisticated view of thermodynamic constraints...
The direct response of Drosophila melanogaster to selection on knockdown temperatureG W Gilchrist
Department of Zoology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1800, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 83:15-29. 1999..The global polymorphism for knockdown temperature, coupled with the ease of selective removal of either mode, suggests that genetic variation for knockdown temperature may be maintained by natural selection...
Mountaineering in thin air. Patterns of death and of weather at high altitudeR B Huey
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 502:225-36. 2001....
2002 Sewall Wright Award. Linda PartridgeRaymond B Huey
University of Washington, USA
Am Nat 161:following cover. 2003
Why "suboptimal" is optimal: Jensen's inequality and ectotherm thermal preferencesTara Laine Martin
Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California 91711, USA
Am Nat 171:E102-18. 2008..Asymmetric (left-skewed) T(b) distributions reduce the magnitude of the optimal shift but do not eliminate it. Comparative data (insects, lizards) support key predictions. Thus, "suboptimal" is optimal...
Thermal preference of Caenorhabditis elegans: a null model and empirical testsJennifer L Anderson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97402, USA
J Exp Biol 210:3107-16. 2007..These results demonstrate the value of an explicit null model of thermal effects and highlight problems in the standard model of C. elegans thermotaxis, showing the value of using natural isolates for tests of complex natural behaviours...
Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscuraJoan Balanyà
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona 08071, Spain
Science 313:1773-5. 2006..Thus, genetic change in this fly is tracking climate warming and is doing so globally...
Climbing a triassic Mount Everest: into thinner airRaymond B Huey
JAMA 294:1761-2. 2005
Evolutionary pace of chromosomal polymorphism in colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura: an evolutionary time seriesJoan Balanyà
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona 08071, Spain
Evolution 57:1837-45. 2003..However, five arrangements in South America show directional, continentwide shifts in frequency. Overall, the initial consistency of clinal evolutionary trajectories seen in the first surveys seems not to have been maintained...
