Incubation temperature influences hatchling phenotypes such as sex, size, shape, color, behavior, and locomotor performance in many reptiles, and there is growing concern that global warming might adversely affect reptile populations by altering frequencies of hatchling phenotypes. Here I overview a recent theoretical model used to predict hatchling sex of reptiles with temperature-dependent se...

We derive and study quasicanonical Gibbs distribution function which is characterized by the thermostat with finite number of particles (quasithermostat). We show that this naturally leads to Tsallis nonextensive statistics and thermodynamics, with Tsallis parameter q is found to be related to the number of particles in the quasither-mostat. We show that the chi-square distribution of fluctuati...

Starting from the hypothesis that the tubulin dimer is a conformationally bistable molecule fluctuating between a curved and a straight configuration at room temperature we develop a model for polymorphic dynamics of the microtubule lattice. We show that tubulin bistability consistently explains unusual dynamic fluctuations, the apparent length-stiffness relation of grafted microtubules and the...

Growth and physiology were compared in giant gourami (Osphronemus goramy) larvae reared constant (25, 30, 35 °C) daily fluctuating (25–35 temperature regimes. Larvae aged eight days post-hatching indoors for 21 four closed recirculating systems (four aquaria per system) the different Samples of collected every week from each regime growth measurements. At end experiment, cortisol glucose concen...