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Our approach is a continent-wide multi-species standardized heat challenge
Our approach is a continent-wide multi-species standardized heat challenge
art by Jessica Rozek Cañizares
Data streams including gene expression, epigenetics, DNA damage, metabolomics, stress hormone responses, and more, will be fed into novel computational tools to test competing hypothesis on how nature builds a heat-resilient brain.
Hypothesis: Nature repeatedly evolves a conserved pathway to heat resilience.
Hypothesis: Certain lineages have evolved unique paths to neurothermotolerance, e.g. via inherently heat ready brains, or alternatively, through brains that dynamically respond to heat stress.
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- How thermal challenges change gene regulation in the songbird brain and gonad: Implications for sexual selection in our changing world
- Heat alters diverse thermal tolerance mechanisms: An organismal framework for studying climate change effects in a wild bird
- Organismal effects of heat in a fixed ecological niche: Implications on the role of behavioral buffering in our changing world
- Simulated heat waves reduce cognitive and motor performance of an endotherm
- High temperatures reduce song production and alter signal salience in songbirds
- CAGEE: Computational Analysis of Gene Expression Evolution
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