“…Because body temperature influences the speed of all metabolic processes, the ambient temperature affects various physiological processes, such as protein expression and binding (Deane and Woo, 2005;Huber and Guderley, 1993), blood circulation (Aguiar et al, 2002;Lecklin et al, 1995), respiration (Sollid et al, 2005), hormonal activity (Fortune, 1958), the immune system (Le Morvan et al, 1998) and behavior (Cossins et al, 1977;Friedlander et al, 1976;McCormick et al, 2002;Zitek et al, 2004). In addition, ambient temperature is also known to affect several parameters directly related to reproductive fitness, such as growth (Dembski et al, 2006;Hall and Johnston, 2003), egg size (Gillet and Quétin, 2006;Kokita, 2003) and life span (Dembski et al, 2006).…”