Selection for high diapause incidence in blow flies (Calliphora vicina) maintained under long days increases the maternal critical daylength: Some consequences for the photoperiodic clock

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 777-784

  Saunders, D S ^a   Cymborowski, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Calliphora vicina; Diapause; Locomotor rhythms; Nanda Hamner responses; Photoperiodism; Selection

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAPAUSE; FLY; PHOTOPERIOD; SELECTION;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CALLIPHORA; CALLIPHORA VICINA; CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0042631130     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(03)00114-8     Document Type: Article

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