Effects of extreme temperatures on phenotypic variation and developmental stability in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila buzzatii

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-126

  Imasheva, Alexandra G ^a   Loeschcke, Volker ^b   Zhivotovsky, Lev A ^a   Lazebny, Oleg E ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fluctuating asymmetry; Quantitative characters; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA BUZZATII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030919521     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0125     Document Type: Article

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