Natural adaptation to environmental stress via physiological clock-regulation of stress resistance in Drosophila

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-19

  Sørensen, Jesper Givskov ^a   Loeschcke, Volker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Drosophila buzzatti; Heat stress; Knock down resistance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STRESS RESISTANCE;

EID: 0036166230     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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