MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF LIPID-BASED METABOLIC ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN RESPONSE TO COLD

Temperature changes and periods of detrimental cold occur frequently for many organisms in their natural habitats.Homeothermic animals have evolved metabolic adaptation strategies to increase mitochondrial-based energy expenditure and heat production, largely relying on fat as a fuel source.Alternatively, certain species are able to repress their m

Dispersal is one of the key processes determining biodiversity.The passive sampling hypothesis, which emphasizes dispersal processes, suggests that larger habitats receive more species from the species pool as the main mechanism leading to more species in larger habitats than in smaller habitats (i.e., species-area relationships).However, the speci