*indicates undergraduate student authors
2023
19. McIntyre, T.*, Andaloori, L.*, Hood, G.R., Feder, J.L., Hahn, D.A., Ragland, G.J. and Toxopeus, J. (2023) Cold tolerance and diapause within and across trophic levels: endoparasitic wasps and their fly host have similar phenotypes. Journal of Insect Physiology, 146: 104501.
2022
18. Freda, P.J., Toxopeus, J., Dowle, E.J., Ali, Z.M., Heter, N., Collier, R.L., Sower, I.*, Tucker, J.C.*, Morgan, T.J. and Ragland, G.J. (2022) Transcriptomic and functional genetic evidence for distinct ecophysiological responses across complex life cycle stages. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225: jeb.244063. **Featured in Inside JEB, which highlights key developments in the Journal of Experimental Biology, and short-listed as a finalist for the JEB Outstanding Paper Prize of 2022.**
2021
17. Toxopeus, J., Gadey, L., Andaloori, L.*, Sanaei, M.* and Ragland, G. (2021) Costs of averting or prematurely terminating diapause associated with slow decline of metabolic rates at low temperature. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, 255: 110920.
16. Lebenzon, J.E., Toxopeus, J., Anthony, S.E. and Sinclair, B.J. (2021) De novo assembly and characterisation of the transcriptome of the Beringian pseudoscorpion. The Canadian Entomologist, 153: 301-313.
2020
15. Li, N.G., Toxopeus, J., Moos, M, Sørensen, J.G. and Sinclair, B.J. (2020) A comparison of low temperature biology of Pieris rapae from Ontario, Canada, and Yakutia, Far Eastern Russia. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, 242: 110649.
2019
14. Rozsypal, J., Toxopeus, J., Berková, P., Moos, M., Šimek, P. and Koštál, V. (2019) Fat body disintegration after freezing stress is a consequence rather than cause of freezing injury in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology, 115: 12-19.
13. Toxopeus, J., Koštál, V. and Sinclair, B.J. (2019) Evidence for non-colligative function of small cryoprotectants in a freeze tolerant insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286: 20190050. **Featured twice on CBC Radio (on “Fresh Air” and “All in a Day”), recommended in F1000Prime
12. Toxopeus, J., Des Marteaux, L.E. and Sinclair, B.J. (2019) How crickets become freeze-tolerant: the transcriptomic underpinnings of acclimation in Gryllus veletis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D, 29: 55-66.
11. Toxopeus, J., McKinnon, A.H, Stetina, T., Turnbull, K.F. and Sinclair, B.J. (2019) Laboratory acclimation to autumn-like conditions induces freeze tolerance in the spring field cricket Gryllus veletis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 113: 9-16.
2018
10. Toxopeus, J. and Sinclair B.J. (2018) Mechanisms underlying insect freeze tolerance. Biological Reviews, 93: 1891-1914.
2017
9. Newman, C.E.*, Toxopeus, J., Udaka, H., Ahn, S., Martynowicz, D.M., Graether, S.P., Sinclair, B.J. and Percival-Smith, A. (2017) CRISPR-induced null alleles show that Frost protects Drosophila melanogaster reproduction after cold exposure. Journal of Experimental Biology,
8. Des Marteaux, L.E., McKinnon, A.H, Udaka, H., Toxopeus, J. and Sinclair, B.J. (2017) Effects of cold-acclimation on gene expression in Fall field cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus) ionoregulatory tissues. BMC Genomics, 18: 357.
7. Andrushchenko, I.V., Taylor, B.R., Toxopeus, J. and Wilson, E. (2017) Congregations of the leaf-shredding insect Lepidostoma togatum mediate exceptionally rapid mass loss from leaf litter in Nova Scotia rivers. Hydrobiologia, 78: 245-265.
2016
6. Toxopeus, J., Lebenzon, J.E., McKinnon, A.H and Sinclair B.J. (2016) Freeze tolerance of Cyphoderris montrosa (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 148: 668-672.
5. Toxopeus, J., Jakobs, R., Ferguson, L.V., Gariepy, T.D. and Sinclair, B.J. (2016) Reproductive arrest and stress resistance in winter-acclimated Drosophila suzukii. Journal of Insect Physiology, 89: 37-51.
2014
4. Toxopeus, J., Warner, A.H. and MacRae, T.H. (2014) Group 1 LEA proteins contribute to the desiccation and freeze tolerance of Artemia franciscana embryos. Cell Stress & Chaperones, 19: 939-948.
3. King, A.M., Toxopeus, J. and MacRae, T.H. (2014) Artemin, a diapause-specific chaperone, contributes to stress tolerance of Artemia cysts and influences their release from females. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217: 1719-1724.
2013
2. King, A.M., Toxopeus, J. and MacRae, T.H. (2013) Functional differentiation of small heat shock proteins in diapause-destined Artemia embryos. FEBS Journal, 280: 4761-4772.
2011
1. Toxopeus, J., Kozera, C.J., O’Leary, S.J.B. and Garbary, D.J. (2011) A reclassification of Mycophycias ascophylli (Ascomycota) based on nuclear large ribosomal subunit DNA sequences. Botanica Marina, 54: 325-334.
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