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For Dr. Sinclair's pre-Western publications, please see the publication list on his page. For reprints, please visit the journals' websites or contact Dr Sinclair.

2012

Williams, C.M., Hellmann, J.J. & Sinclair, B.J. (in press) Lepidopteran species differ in susceptibility to winter warming.  Climate Research.

Sinclair, B.J., Williams, C.M. & Terblanche, J.S. (in press) Variation in thermal performance among insect populations.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Tattersall, G.J., Sinclair, B.J., Seebacher, F., Withers, P., Cooper, C., Fields, P. & Maloney, S. (in press) Coping with thermal challenges: Physiological adaptations to environmental temperatures.  Comprehensive Physiology.

Ronges, D., Walsh, J.P., Sinclair, B.J. & Stillman, J.H. (2012) Changes in tolerance to extreme cold, membrane composition and the cardiac transcriptome during the first day of thermal acclimation in the porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 1824-1836.

Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) The impacts of repeated cold exposures on insects. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1607-1613.

Williams, C.M., Marshall, K.E., MacMillan, H.A., Dzurisin, J.D.K., Hellmann, J.J. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Thermal variability increases the impact of autumnal warming and drives metabolic suppression in an overwintering butterfly.  PLoS ONE 7: e34470.

MacMillan, H.A., Williams, C.M., Staples, J.F. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Metabolism and energy supply below the critical thermal minimum of a chill-susceptible insect.  Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1366-1372.

Lalouette, L., Williams, C.M., Cottin, M., Sinclair, B.J. & Renault, D. (2012) Thermal biology of the alien ground beetle Merizodius soledadinus introduced to the Kerguelen Islands. Polar Biology  35: 509-517.

Vermunt, B., Cuddington, K., Sobek-Swant, S., Crosthwaite, J.C., Lyons, D.B. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Temperatures experienced by wood-boring beetles in the under-bark microclimate. Forest Ecology and Management 269: 149-157.

Bing, X., Zhang, J. & Sinclair, B.J.  (2012) A comparison of Frost expression among species and life stages of Drosophila.  Insect Molecular Biology 21:  31-39.

Sobek-Swant, S, Crosthwaite, J.C., Lyons, D.B. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012)  Could phenotypic plasticity limit an invasive species?  Incomplete reversibility of mid-winter deacclimation in emerald ash borer.  Biological Invasions 14: 115-125.

Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Threshold temperatures mediate the impact of reduced snow cover on overwintering freeze tolerant caterpillars.  Naturwissenschaften 99: 33-41.

2011

Zhang, J., Marshall, K.E., Westwood, J.T., Clark, M.S. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) Divergent transcriptomic responses to repeated and single cold exposures in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 4021-4029.

Ransberry, V.E., MacMillan, H.A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011). The relationship between chill-coma onset and recovery at the extremes of the thermal window of Drosophila melanogaster.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84: 553-559.

Williams, C.M., Thomas, R.H., MacMillan, H.A., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011)  Triacylglyceride measurement in small quantities of homogenised insect tissue: comparisons and caveats.  Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 1602-1613.

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A., Convey, P., Sinclair, B.J., Lebouvier, M., Van de Vijver, B., & Wall, D.H.  (2011) Passive warming methods in Antarctica: implications for climate change studies.  Polar Biology 34: 1421-1435.

Nyamukondiwa, C., Terblanche, J.S., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) Basal cold- but not heat-tolerance constrains plasticity among Drosophila species (Diptera: Drosophilidae).  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1927-1938.

Sobek, S., Rajamohan, A., Dillon, D., Cumming, R.C. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) High temperature tolerance and thermal plasticity in emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).  Agricultural and Forest Entomology 13:  333-340.

Boardman, L., Terblanche, J.S. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) Transmembrane ion distribution during recovery from freezing in the woolly bear caterpillar Pyrrharctia isabella (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).  Journal of Insect Physiology. 57: 1154-1162.

Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J.  (2011) The sublethal effects of repeated freezing in the woolly bear caterpillar Pyrrharctia isabella.  Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 1205-1212. Featured on the Promega Connections Blog.

Sinclair, B.J.,  Bretman, A, Tregenza, T., Tomkins, J.L. & Hosken, D.J. (2011) Metabolic rate does not decrease with starvation in Gryllus bimaculatus when changing fuel use is taken into account.  Physiological Entomology 36: 84-89.

MacMillan, H.A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011).  The role of the gut in insect chilling-injury: cold-induced disruption of osmoregulation in the fall field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus.  Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 726-734.

Strachan, L.A., Tarnowski-Garner, H.E., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The evolution of cold tolerance in Drosophila larvae.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84: 43-53.  Download supplementary material. Recommended  on Faculty of 1000

Crosthwaite, J.C., Sobek, S., Lyons, D.B., Bernards, M.A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The overwintering physiology of the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).  Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 166-173.

MacAlpine, J.L.P., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The effects of CO2 and chronic cold exposure on fecundity of female Drosophila melanogaster.  Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 35-37.

MacMillan, H.A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) Mechanisms underlying insect chill-coma.  Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 12-20.

Lalouette, L., Williams, C.M., Hervant, F., Sinclair, B.J., Renault, D. (2011) Metabolic rate and oxidative stress in insects exposed to low temperature thermal fluctuations.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 158: 229-234.

2010

Bazinet, A.L., Marshall, K.E., MacMillan, H.A., Williams, C.M. & Sinclair, B.J. (2010) Rapid changes in desiccation resistance in Drosophila melanogaster are facilitated by changes in cuticular permeability.  Journal of Insect Physiology 56: 2006-2012.

Chown, S.L. & Sinclair, B. J. (2010).  The Macrophysiology of insect thermal limits.  Pp. 191-223 In: Denlinger, D.L. and Lee, R.E., eds.  Insect Low Temperature Biology. Cambridge University Press.

Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2010) Repeated stress exposure results in a survival-reproduction tradeoff in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 963-969.

Williams, C.M., Pelini, S.L., Hellmann, J.J. & Sinclair, B.J. (2010) Intra-individual variation allows an explicit test of the hygric hypothesis for discontinuous gas exchange in insects.  Biology Letters 6: 274-277.

Sinclair, B.J. & Renault, D. (2010) Intracellular ice formation in insects: Unresolved after 50 years?  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155: 14-18.

2009

Sinclair, B.J., Gibbs, A.G., Lee, W.-K., Rajamohan, A., Roberts, S.P. & Socha, J.J. (2009).  Syncrotron x-ray visualisation of ice formation in insects during lethal and non-lethal freezing.  PLoS ONE 4: e8259.

Pelini, S.L., Dzurisin, J.D.K., Prior, K.M., Williams, C.M., Marsico, T.D., Sinclair, B.J. & Hellmann, J.J. (2009) Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 11160-11165.  Recommented on Faculty of 1000

 Rajamohan, A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2009) Hardening trumps acclimation in improving cold tolerance of Drosophila melanogaster larvae.  Physiological Entomology 34: 217-223.

Yeates, G.W., Scott, M.B., Chown, S.L. & Sinclair, B.J. (2009) Changes in soil nematode populations indicate an annual life cycle at Cape Hallett, Antarctica.  Pedobiologia 52: 375-386.

MacMillan, H.A., Guglielmo, G.G. & Sinclair, B.J. (2009)  Membrane remodeling and glucose in Drosophila melanogaster: A test of rapid cold-hardening and chilling tolerance hypotheses.  Journal of Insect Physiology 55: 243-249.

MacMillan, H.A., Walsh, J.P. & Sinclair, B.J. (2009) The effects of selection for cold tolerance on cross tolerance to other environmental stressors in Drosophila melanogaster Meigen. Insect Science 16: 263-276.

2008

Chown, S.L., Sørensen, J.G. and Sinclair, B.J. (2008) Physiological variation and phenotypic plasticity – A response to Hawes and Bale. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3353-3357.

Scott, M.B., Dickinson, K.J.M., Barratt, B.I.P. & Sinclair, B.J. (2008) Temperature and moisture trends in non-sorted earth hummocks and stripes on the Old Man Range, New Zealand: Implications for mechanisms of maintenance.  Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 19: 305-314.

Chown, S.L., Sinclair, B.J. & Jansen van Vuuren, B.J. (2008) DNA barcoding and the documentation of alien species establishment on sub-Antarctic Marion Island.  Polar Biology31: 651-655.

Rajamohan, A. & Sinclair, B.J. (2008) Short term hardening effects on survival of acute and chronic cold exposure by Drosophila melanogaster larvae.  Journal of Insect Physiology 54: 708-718. Online data for this paper available here.

Sinclair, B.J. & Rajamohan, A. (2008) Slow and stepped re-warming after acute low temperature exposure do not improve survival of Drosophila melanogaster larvae.  The Canadian Entomologist 140: 306-311.

2007
Sinclair, B.J., Nelson, S., Nilson, T. L., Roberts, S.P. & Gibbs, A.G.  (2007) The effect of selection for desiccation resistance on cold tolerance of Drosophila melanogaster.  Physiological Entomology 32: 322-327.

Sinclair, B.J., Gibbs, A.G. & Roberts, S.P. (2007) Gene transcription during exposure to, and recovery from, cold and desiccation stress in Drosophila melanogaster.  Insect Molecular Biology 16: 435-443.

2006
Nilson, T.L., Sinclair, B.J. & Roberts, S.P. (2006) The effects of carbon dioxide anesthesia and anoxia on rapid cold-hardening and chill coma recovery in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 52: 1027-1033.

Sinclair, B.J. & Stevens, M.I. (2006) Terrestrial microarthropods of Victoria Land and Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica: implications of climate change.  Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 3158-3170.