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Evolutionary and Ecological Physiology led by Frank Seebacher, focuses on responses of animals to changing environments, and how these responses have evolved in space and time. Our research is integrative in that it transcends taxonomic and methodological categories. Evolution is driven by environmental
change which acts on organisms' physiology and thereby fitness. A principal
focus of our research is the thermal biology of animals. The thermodynamics of
biochemical reaction rates dictate that cellular rate processes vary
proportionally to changes in temperature. The environment is never stable,
and climate in particular fluctuates in space and time. Living organisms must
therefore either cope with varying physiological performance or implement
some form of regulation. It is of particular interest how responses of
animals are integrated across different levels of organisation, and at what
level regulation is implemented.
Keywords: evolution, reaction norms, adaptation, plasticity, gene expression, enzyme activity, behaviour, climate, endothermy, ectothermy
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