Volker Loeschcke

Research interests

Publications

• How to assess Drosophila cold tolerance: chill coma temperature and lower lethal temperature are the best predictors of cold distribution limits

  Functional Ecology · 2014 · 10.1111/1365-2435.12310

• PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINTS IN KEY FUNCTIONAL TRAITS BEHIND SPECIES’ CLIMATE NICHES: PATTERNS OF DESICCATION AND COLD RESISTANCE ACROSS 95DROSOPHILASPECIES

  Evolution · 2012 · 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01685.x

• Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207553109

• Genetic erosion impedes adaptive responses to stressful environments

  Evolutionary Applications · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00214.x

• Conservation genetics in transition to conservation genomics

  Trends in Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2010.01.001

• Effectiveness of microsatellite and SNP markers for parentage and identity analysis in species with low genetic diversity: the case of European bison

  Heredity · 2009 · 10.1038/hdy.2009.73

• Genomic signatures of local directional selection in a high gene flow marine organism; the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

  BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2009 · 10.1186/1471-2148-9-276

• Research on inbreeding in the ‘omic’ era

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2009 · 10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.014

• Protein and carbohydrate composition of larval food affects tolerance to thermal stress and desiccation in adult Drosophila melanogaster

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2009 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2009.11.006

• Local adaptation in brown trout early life-history traits: implications for climate change adaptability

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · 10.1098/rspb.2008.0870

• Costs and benefits of cold acclimation in field-released Drosophila

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 10.1073/pnas.0708074105

• Metabolomic profiling of rapid cold hardening and cold shock in Drosophila melanogaster

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.06.012

• Metabolomic profiling of heat stress: hardening and recovery of homeostasis in Drosophila

  American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology · 2006 · 10.1152/ajpregu.00867.2005

• Full genome gene expression analysis of the heat stress response in Drosophila melanogaster

  Cell Stress and Chaperones · 2005 · 10.1379/csc-128r1.1

• Environmental stress, adaptation and evolution: an overview

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00962.x

• Correlated responses to selection for stress resistance and longevity in a laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00928.x

• Changes in membrane lipid composition following rapid cold hardening in Drosophila melanogaster

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2005.06.007

• Marine landscapes and population genetic structure of herring (Clupea harengus L.) in the Baltic Sea

  Molecular Ecology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02658.x

• The evolutionary and ecological role of heat shock proteins

  Ecology Letters · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00528.x

• Adaptation of Drosophila to temperature extremes: bringing together quantitative and molecular approaches

  Journal of Thermal Biology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4565(02)00057-8

• Genetic variation in thermal tolerance among natural populations of Drosophila buzzatii: down regulation of Hsp70 expression and variation in heat stress resistance traits

  Functional Ecology · 2001 · 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2001.00525.x

• Mitochondrial DNA Variability in Italian and East European Wolves: Detecting the Consequences of Small Population Size and Hybridization

  Conservation Biology · 2000 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98280.x

• Induced thermotolerance and associated expression of the heat‐shock protein Hsp70 in adult Drosophila melanogaster

  Functional Ecology · 1998 · 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00246.x

• Analysis of microsatellite DNA from old scale samples of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar: a comparison of genetic composition over 60 years

  Molecular Ecology · 1997 · 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1997.00204.x

• Costs and Benefits of Activation of the Heat-Shock Response in Drosophila melanogaster

  Functional Ecology · 1994 · 10.2307/2390232

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