Search for dissertations about: "reproductive diapause"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words reproductive diapause.

  2. 1. The role of insulin signaling during development, reproductive diapause and aging in Drosophila Melanogaster

    Author : Sifang Liao; Dick Nässel; Heinrich Dircksen; Mark Brown; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; insulin-like peptides; reproductive diapause; behavioral senescence; neuromodulator; lifespan; funktionell zoomorfologi; Functional Zoomorphology;

    Abstract : The insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway exists from invertebrates to vertebrates and it can regulate various biological processes, including development, metabolism, stress resistance and lifespan. In Drosophila, eight insulin-like peptides (DILP1-8) have been found. READ MORE

  4. 2. The evolutionary ecology of niche separation : Studies on the sympatric butterflies Leptidea sinapis and Leptidea reali

    Author : Magne Friberg; Wiklund Christer; John N. Thompson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Lepidoptera; ecological character displacement; reproductive isolation; species discrimination; habitat; host plant; life history; sexual selection; female choice; Biology; Biologi; zoologisk ekologi; Animal Ecology;

    Abstract : Studies of ecology and evolution have become largely integrated, and increasing attention is paid to the role of ecology for speciation and post speciation divergence. In this thesis I have applied an in-depth approach studying the ecology of a butterfly species pair; the morphologically virtually identical sister-species, the Wood white (Leptidea sinapis) and Reál’s wood white (Leptidea reali). READ MORE

  5. 3. Effects of climate on phenological synchrony between butterflies and their host plants

    Author : Diana Posledovich; Karl Gotthard; Christer Wiklund; Johan Ehrlén; Boggs Carol; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Phenology; phenological synchrony; Anthocharis cardamines; Pieris napi; latitudinal variation; zoologisk ekologi; Animal Ecology;

    Abstract : Shifts in species’ phenologies and phenological asynchronies between the interacting organisms have received a lot of attention in the context of climate change. Changes in temporal overlap between species, caused by phenological asynchrony, make species depending on one another become so separated in time that they can no longer interact. READ MORE