Frances V Compere

Abstract As modest increases in temperature become more common due to global climate change, species are being subjected to moderate temperature stress that can disproportionally affect species fertility. Species that can buffer fluctuations in temperature through tissue or cellular responses in the germline will therefore be more likely to survive moderate temperature stress.

Pan-somatic expression of LIN-35(+) is necessary for proper sperm localization under moderate temperature stress There are two possible scenarios that could lead to the observation of lin-35 mutants with or without somatic lin-35(+) transgene expression showing limited increases in brood size when mated. First, when lin-35 mutant hermaphrodites mate with males there could be limited sperm transfer/migration to the spermatheca.