A comprehensive assessment of geographic variation in heat tolerance and hardening capacity in populations of Drosophila melanogaster from Eastern Australia

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2484-2493

  Sgro C M ^a   Overgaard, J ^b   Kristensen, T N ^b   Mitchell, K A ^c   Cockerell, F E ^a   Hoffmann, A A ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Heat stress; Latitudinal cline; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LARVA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GEOGRAPHY; HEAT; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE; LARVA; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77958613238     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02110.x     Document Type: Article

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