Environmental stress and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: Starvation resistance, ovariole numbers and early age egg production

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wayne, Marta L ^a   Soundararajan, Usha ^b   Harshman, Lawrence G ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PROGENY; STARVATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EGG LAYING; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; OVARY; OVIPOSITION; SELECTION, GENETIC; WING;

EID: 33747392553     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-57     Document Type: Article

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