Stress temperatures and quantitative variation in Drosophila melanogaster

Heredity

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 246-253

  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

Drosophila melanogaster; Life history; Morphological characters; Stress; Variation

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIANCE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032168054     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6883840     Document Type: Article

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