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Brent J. Sinclair is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with numerous publications contributing to these areas.

Their main subfields of study encompass:

  • Ecology
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Key topics addressed by Sinclair include:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect behavior and control techniques

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sinclair include:

  • Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters, 2021, BioScience
  • Reversible mitophagy drives metabolic suppression in diapausing beetles, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Help, there are 'omics' in my comparative physiology!, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Cold tolerance, water balance, energetics, gas exchange, and diapause in overwintering brown marmorated stink bugs, 2020, Journal of Insect Physiology
  • Plasticity drives extreme cold tolerance of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) during a polar vortex, 2022, Current Research in Insect Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sinclair include:

  • Alex S. Torson
  • Kurtis F. Turnbull
  • Amanda D. Roe
  • Jacqueline E. Lebenzon
  • Daniel Doucet

Sinclair has published extensively in various journals, with multiple contributions in these venues:

  • Current Research in Insect Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • The Canadian Entomologist
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Journal of Insect Physiology

Best Publications

  • Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures

    Brent J. Sinclair;Katie E. Marshall;Mary A. Sewell;Danielle L. Levesque

  • Insects in Fluctuating Thermal Environments

    Hervé Colinet;Brent J. Sinclair;Philippe Vernon;David Renault

  • Cold truths: how winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change.

    Caroline M. Williams;Hugh A. L. Henry;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Insects at low temperatures: an ecological perspective

    Brent J. Sinclair;Philippe Vernon;C. Jaco Klok;Steven L. Chown

  • An invitation to measure insect cold tolerance: Methods, approaches, and workflow.

    Brent J. Sinclair;Litza E. Coello Alvarado;Laura V. Ferguson

  • Mechanisms underlying insect chill-coma.

    Heath A. MacMillan;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Coping with thermal challenges: physiological adaptations to environmental temperatures.

    Glenn J Tattersall;Brent J Sinclair;Philip C Withers;Peter A Fields

  • Cross-tolerance and Cross-talk in the Cold: Relating Low Temperatures to Desiccation and Immune Stress in Insects

    Brent J. Sinclair;Laura V. Ferguson;Golnaz Salehipour-shirazi;Heath A. MacMillan

  • Repeated stress exposure results in a survival–reproduction trade-off in Drosophila melanogaster

    Katie E. Marshall;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Climatic variability and the evolution of insect freeze tolerance.

    Brent J. Sinclair;A. Addo-Bediako;Steven L. Chown

  • Metabolic rate and oxidative stress in insects exposed to low temperature thermal fluctuations.

    Lisa Lalouette;C. M. Williams;Frédéric Hervant;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Gene transcription during exposure to, and recovery from, cold and desiccation stress in Drosophila melanogaster

    B. J. Sinclair;A. G. Gibbs;S. P. Roberts

  • Insect cold tolerance: How many kinds of frozen?

    B.J. Sinclair

  • Mechanisms underlying insect freeze tolerance.

    Jantina Toxopeus;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Linking energetics and overwintering in temperate insects.

    Brent J. Sinclair

  • Cold acclimation wholly reorganizes the Drosophila melanogaster transcriptome and metabolome.

    Heath A. MacMillan;Jose M. Knee;Alice B. Dennis;Hiroko Udaka;Hiroko Udaka

  • Variation in thermal performance among insect populations.

    Brent J. Sinclair;Caroline M. Williams;John S. Terblanche

  • Thermal variability increases the impact of autumnal warming and drives metabolic depression in an overwintering butterfly.

    Caroline M. Williams;Katie E. Marshall;Heath A. MacMillan;Jason D. K. Dzurisin

  • Upper thermal tolerance and oxygen limitation in terrestrial arthropods

    C. Jaco Klok;Brent J. Sinclair;Steven L. Chown

  • Hemispheric asymmetries in biodiversity--a serious matter for ecology.

    Steven L Chown;Brent J Sinclair;Hans P Leinaas;Kevin J Gaston

  • The role of the gut in insect chilling injury: cold-induced disruption of osmoregulation in the fall field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus.

    Heath A. MacMillan;Brent J. Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Chown
Steven L. Chown Monash University
John Terblanche
John Terblanche Stellenbosch University
Thomas R. Buckley
Thomas R. Buckley Landcare Research
David J. Marshall
David J. Marshall Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Richard D. Newcomb
Richard D. Newcomb Plant & Food Research
Jessica J. Hellmann
Jessica J. Hellmann University of Minnesota
Jonathon H. Stillman
Jonathon H. Stillman University of California, Berkeley
Christopher M. Buddle
Christopher M. Buddle McGill University
Allen G. Gibbs
Allen G. Gibbs University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yunwei Dong
Yunwei Dong Ocean University of China

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