A Matter of Life or Death: Untangling the Coupled Roles of Behavior, Microclimate and Physiological Polymorphism in Governing Vulnerability of Intertidal Snails to Heat Stress

Yunwei Dong1, Xiaoxu Li1, Francis Choi2, Gray Willams3, George N Somero4 and Brian Helmuth2, (1)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, (2)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nahant, United States, (3)University of Hong Kong, 3. The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States