SCHULTZ, J.C.: Shared signals and the potential for phylogenetic espionage between plants and animals Our understanding of responses to biotic and abiotic stimuli has developed separately for plants and animals. But recent biochemical and molecular work is producing a growing list of elements involved in diverse responses that are common to both kingdoms. Some of […]

Lutz, P.* L Lutz; Prentice, H.: Sensing and responding to hypoxia, molecular and physiological mechanisms In order to accommodate to low oxygen it is necessary first to be able to detect hypoxia, then to initiate the appropriate mechanisms. There are two basic detectors: molecular sensors that are directly linked to gene regulation and metabolic indicators […]

Ehleringer, J.*; Cerling, T.: Possible relationships between atmospheric carbon dioxide and mammalian grazers We explore the possible relationships between photosynthetic pathway, changing atmospheric carbon dioxide, and mammalian herbivores. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have changed over the last 200 million years; the recent pattern of increasing anthropogenic emissions has resulted in a dramatic increase in atmospheric […]

Feder, M.E.: Plant and animal comparative physiology/biochemistry, evolutionary physiology, ecological physiology, and physiological ecology: opportunities for synergy Both the communities of plant biology researchers and animal biology researchers include multidisciplinary groups that combine physiology, ecology, biochemistry, biomechanics, and evolution, but historically these groups have often been as distinct as the organisms they study. This symposium […]

Porter, W.* P.; Budaraju, S.; Stewart, W.E.; Ramankutty, N.: Physiology on a landscape scale: applications in ecological theory and conservation practice Plant properties play a crucial role in a novel and unsuspected way that involves the physiology of animals as does effects of climate variation in time and space in how many species can coexist […]

Sage, R.F.: How Plants Sense, Signal, and Respond to Carbon Dioxide Most effects of atmospheric CO2 increase arise indirectly as a result of photosynthetic stimulation, inhibition of respiration, or improved water use efficiency. Only the guard cells that control stomatal function are known to directly sense variation in CO2 and transduce it into a regulated […]

HUEY, R.B.: Behavior as a buffer of environmental change A common view is that animals and plants differ fundamentally in the way they interact with the physical environment. For example, animals are generally much more mobile than plants and thus are better able to use behavior to ameliorate environmental change. If this is the case, […]

Crowe, J.H.*; Crowe, L.M.: Anhydrobiosis: A Unique Biological State Anhydrobiosis (“life without water”) is a wide-spread phenomenon in all major groups of lower organisms. Anhydrobiotic organisms often contain as little as 2% water content. They persist in the dry state for lengthy periods, but when they are returned to water they rapidly rehydrate and resume […]

JINKS, R.N.*; MARKLEY, T.L.; PEROVICH, G.M.; EPIFANIO, C.; CRONIN, T.W.: Ontogeny of vision in marine crustaceans. Eyes of most adult crustaceans are specialized for image formation and frequently for color vision or polarization vision as well; but those of larvae probably have more basic functions. In contrast, eyes of adult crustaceans found at hydrothermal vents […]

CHARMANTIER, G.: Ontogeny of osmoregulation in crustaceans : The embryonic phase. Three patterns of ontogeny of postembryonic osmoregulation have been recognized in crustaceans : (1) osmoregulation varies little with development stage and the adults are weak regulators or osmoconformers; (2) the adult type of efficient osmoregulation is established in the first postembryonic stage; (3) metamorphosis […]