The DOI matches its Crossref record; 105 of the 105 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The evolution of thermal physiology in endotherms
Open accessAbstract
Biologists usually refer to mammals and birds as homeotherms, but these animals universally experience regional and temporal variations in body temperature. These variations could represent adaptive strategies of heterothermy, which in turn would favor genotypes that function over a wide range of temperatures. This coadaptation of thermoregulation and thermosensitivity has been studied extensively among ectotherms, but remains unexplored among endotherms. In this review, we apply classical models of thermal adaptation to predict variation in body temperature within and among populations of mammals and birds. We then relate these predictions to observations generated by comparative and experimental studies. In general, optimality models can explain the qualitative effects of abiotic and biotic factors on thermoregulation. Similar insights should emerge when using models to predict variation in the thermosensitivity of endotherms, but the dearth of empirical data on this subject precludes a rigorous analysis at this time. Future research should focus on the selective pressures imposed by regional and temporal heterothermy in endotherms.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Evolution of Life-histories
Benton, T. G., & Stearne, S. C. (1993) · The Journal of Animal Ecology · doi:10.2307/5403 · Cited by 12,228
Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus
Lima, S. L., & Dill, L. M. (1990) · Canadian Journal of Zoology · doi:10.1139/z90-092 · Cited by 8,196
Leptin and the regulation of body weight in mammals
Friedman, J. M., & Halaas, J. L. (1998) · Nature · doi:10.1038/27376 · Cited by 5,405
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
(1996) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(09)00431-x · Cited by 5,258
Introduction to Quantitative Genetics
G., J.-M., & Falconer, D. S. (1962) · Population (French Edition) · doi:10.2307/1525780 · Cited by 3,705
(2009) · Cited by 1,999
Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution
Hochachka, P. W., & Somero, G. N. (2002) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780195117028.001.0001 · Cited by 1,906
Integrating Thermal Physiology and Ecology of Ectotherms: A Discussion of Approaches
HUEY, R. B., & STEVENSON, R. D. (1979) · American Zoologist · doi:10.1093/icb/19.1.357 · Cited by 1,553
Pörtner, H. O. (2002) · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology · doi:10.1016/s1095-6433(02)00045-4 · Cited by 1,436
The evolution of thermal physiology in ectotherms
Angilletta, M. J., Niewiarowski, P. H., & Navas, C. A. (2002) · Journal of Thermal Biology · doi:10.1016/s0306-4565(01)00094-8 · Cited by 1,405
Cited by
Thermodynamic Effects on Organismal Performance: Is Hotter Better?
Angilletta, M. J., Huey, R. B., & Frazier, M. R. (2010) · Physiological and Biochemical Zoology · doi:10.1086/648567 · Cited by 353
Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change
Mitchell, D., Snelling, E. P., Hetem, R. S., Maloney, S. K., Strauss, W. M., & Fuller, A. (2018) · Journal of Animal Ecology · doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12818 · Cited by 299
Hyperthermia can alter tumor physiology and improve chemo- and radio-therapy efficacy
Dunne, M., Regenold, M., & Allen, C. (2020) · Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.addr.2020.07.007 · Cited by 150
Heterothermy in large mammals: inevitable or implemented?
Hetem, R. S., Maloney, S. K., Fuller, A., & Mitchell, D. (2016) · Biological Reviews · doi:10.1111/brv.12166 · Cited by 100
Metadata
- Authors
- Cooper, B. S.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Bioscience
- Publisher
- IMR Press
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- E2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 861-881
- ISSN
- 1944-7892 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-0494
- 1945-0508
- DOI
- 10.2741/e148
- OpenAlex
- W2343700653
- Cited by
- 293
- References
- 105
- FWCI
- 13.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The evolution of thermal physiology in endotherms. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2741/e148
- The paper
- Cooper, B. S. (2010). The evolution of thermal physiology in endotherms. Frontiers in Bioscience. https://doi.org/10.2741/e148
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
