Clinal variation in developmental time and viability, and the response to thermal treatments in two species of Drosophila

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-245

  Folguera, Guillermo ^a   Ceballos, Santiago ^a   Spezzi, Luciana ^a   Fanara, Juan José ^a   Hasson, Esteban ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Thermal adaptation; Thermal amplitude clines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BROOD REARING; CLINE; FLY; INVASIVE SPECIES; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIABILITY;

DROSOPHILA BUZZATII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 53249107747     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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