Opposing clines for high and low temperature resistance in Drosophila melanogaster

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 614-618

  Hoffmann, Ary A ^a   Anderson, Alisha ^a   Hallas, Rebecca ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold shock; Drosophila; Geographical variation; Heat shock; Thermoresistance

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036743168     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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