Cold tolerance in Drosophila: Adaptive variations revealed by the analysis of starvation survival reaction norms

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 345-351

  Karan, Dev ^a   David, Jean R ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norms; Species adaptation; Starvation tolerance; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA;

EID: 0033936801     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4565(99)00106-0     Document Type: Article

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