Publications

van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M. (2021) Male fertility thermal limits predict vulnerability to climate warming Nature Communications 12, 2214

van Heerwaarden, B. and Kellermann, V. (2020) Does Plasticity Trade Off With Basal Heat Tolerance? Trends in Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.05.006

Kellermann, V. and van Heerwaarden, B. (2019) Terrestrial insects and climate change: adaptive responses in key traits Physiological Entomology 44:99-115 

Lasne, C., Van Heerwaarden, B., Sgrò, C. M. & Connallon, T. (2019) Quantifying the relative contributions of the X chromosome, autosomes, and mitochondrial genome to local adaptation Evolution 73: 262-277 

van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V.M. and Hoffmann, A.A. (2019). Behavioural Ecology: Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Change. pp. 1363-1370 in Encyclopedia of Ecology v2, edited by Jørgensen, S.E. and Fath, B.D. Elsevier, Oxford

van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M. (2017) The quantitative genetic basis of clinal divergence in phenotypic plasticity Evolution 71: 2618-2633 

Kellermann, V.M., van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M.  (2017) How important is thermal history? Evidence for lasting effects of developmental temperature on upper thermal limits in Drosophila melanogaster Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 284: 20170447 

van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V.M. and Sgrò, C.M. (2016) Limited scope for plasticity to increase upper thermal limits Functional Ecology 30: 1947-1956 

van Heerwaarden, B., Malmberg, M. and Sgrò, C.M. (2016) Increases in the evolutionary potential of upper thermal limits under warmer temperatures in two rainforest Drosophila species Evolution 70:456-464 

van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M. (2014) Is adaptation to climate change really constrained in niche specialists? Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 

van Heerwaarden, B., Lee, R.F.H., Overgaard, J. and Sgrò, C.M. (2014) No patterns in thermal plasticity along a latitudinal gradient in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27:  2541-2553 

Blackburn, S., van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V.M. and Sgrò, C.M. (2014) Evolutionary capacity of upper thermal limits: beyond single trait assessments. Journal of Experimental Biology

Davis, J.M.P., van Heerwaarden, B., Sgrò, C.M., Donald, J.A. and Kemp, D.J. (2014) Low genetic variation in cold tolerance linked to species distributions in butterflies. Evolutionary Ecology 28: 495-504 

Telonis-Scott, M, van Heerwaarden, B., Johnson, T.K., Hoffmann, A.A. and Sgrò, C.M. (2013) New levels of transcriptome complexity at upper thermal limits in wild Drosophila revealed by exon expression analysis. Genetics 195: 809-830 

Sgrò, C.M., van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V., Wee, C.W., Hoffmann, A.A., Lee, S.F. (2013) Complexity of the genetic basis of ageing in nature revealed by a clinal study of lifespan and methuselah, a gene for ageing, in Drosophila from eastern Australia. Molecular Ecology 22: 3539-3551 

van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M. (2013) Multivariate analysis of adaptive capacity for upper thermal limits in Drosophila simulans. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 800-809 

Williams, B.R., Van Heerwaarden, B., Dowling, D.K., Sgrò, C.M. (2012) A multivariate test of evolutionary constraints for thermal tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1415-1426 

van Heerwaarden, B., Lee, R.F.H., Wegener, B.J., Weeks, A.R., Sgrò, C.M. (2012) Complex patterns of local adaptation in heat tolerance in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1765-1778 

van Heerwaarden, B. and Sgrò, C.M., (2011) The effect of developmental temperature on the genetic architecture underlying size and thermal clines in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans from the east coast of Australia. Evolution 65: 1048-1067 

Sgrò, C.M., Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V., Wee, C.W., Hoffmann, A.A. and Lee, S.F. (2011) Polymorphism in the couch potato gene clines in eastern Australia but is not associated with ovarian dormancy in Drosophila melanogaster.  Molecular Ecology 20: 2973-2984

Kellermann, V.M., van Heerwaarden, B., Sgrò, C.M. and Hoffmann, A.A. (2009). Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions. Science 325:1244-1246 

van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V.M., Schiffer, M., Blacket, M., Sgrò, C.M. and Hoffmann, A.A.  (2009) Testing evolutionary hypotheses about species borders: Patterns of genetic variation towards the southern borders of two rainforest Drosophila and a related habitat generalist. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 276:1517-1526

van Heerwaarden, B., Willi,Y., Kristensen, T.N. and Hoffmann, A.A. (2008) Population bottlenecks increase additive genetic variance but do not break a selection limit in rainforest Drosophila. Genetics 179: 2135-2146 

van Heerwaarden, B. and Hoffmann, A.A. (2007). Global warming: Fly populations are responding rapidly to climate change. Current Biology 17: R16-18 

Kellermann, V.M^#., van Heerwaarden, B^#., Hoffmann, A.A. and Sgrò, C.M. (2006). Very low additive genetic variance and evolutionary potential in multiple populations of two rainforest Drosophila species. Evolution 60: 1104-1108  ^# These authors contributed equally to this work