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Lake,
S.L., MacMillan, H.A., Williams, C.M. & Sinclair, B.J. (in
press) Static and dynamic approaches yield similar estimates of
the thermal sensitivity of insect metabolism. Journal
of Insect Physiology. Sinclair,
B.J., Ferguson, L.V., Salehipour-shirazi, G. & MacMillan, H.A.
(in press) Cross-tolerance and cross-talk in the cold: relating
low temperatures to desiccation and immune stress in
insects. Integrative
and Comparative Biology. Dennis,
A.B., Dunning, L.T., Dennis, C.J., Sinclair, B.J. & Buckley,
T.R. (in press) Overwintering in New Zealand stick insects. New
Zealand Entomologist. Mitchell,
K.A., Sinclair, B.J. & Terblanche, J.S. (2013) Ontogenetic
variation in cold tolerance plasticity in Drosophila: is
the Bogert effect bogus? Naturwissenschaften
100: 281-284. Dunning,
L.T., Dennis, A.B., Duckchul, C.P., Sinclair, B.J., Newcomb, R.D.
& Buckley, T.R. (2013) Identification of cold-responsive
genes in a New Zealand alpine stick insect using RNA-Seq. Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology D 8: 24-31. Sinclair,
B.J., Stinziano, J.R., Williams, C.M., MacMillan, H.A., Marshall,
K.E. & Storey, K.B. (2013) Real-time measurement of metabolic
rate during freezing and thawing of the wood frog, Rana
sylvatica: Implications for overwinter energy use.
Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 292-302. Featured
in Inside
JEB. MacMillan,
H.A., Williams, C.M., Staples, J.F. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012)
Reestablishment of ion homeostasis during chill-coma recovery in
the cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109:
20750-20755. Sinclair, B.J., Williams, C.M. & Terblanche, J.S. (2012) Variation in thermal performance among insect populations. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85: 594-606. Tattersall,
G.J., Sinclair, B.J., Seebacher, F., Withers, P., Cooper, C.,
Fields, P. & Maloney, S. (2012) Coping with thermal
challenges: Physiological adaptations to environmental
temperatures. Comprehensive
Physiology 2: 2151-2202. Williams,
C.M., Hellmann, J.J. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Lepidopteran
species differ in susceptibility to winter warming. Climate
Research 53: 119-130. 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. Recommended 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.
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