Heritable variation for fecundity in field-collected Drosophila melanogaster and their offspring reared under different environmental temperatures

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 134-143

  Sgrò, Carla M ^a,b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolvability; Fecundity; Heritability; Nature; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031926383     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb05146.x     Document Type: Review

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