Thermal variability alters climatic stress resistance and plastic responses in a globally invasive pest, the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata)

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-315

  Terblanche, John S ^a   Nyamukondiwa, Casper ^a   Kleynhans, Elsje ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Climate change; Diptera; Fitness; Fluctuating thermal regimes; Medfly; Phenotypic plasticity; Population dynamics; Rapid cold hardening; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TOLERANCE; ECTOTHERMY; EGG PRODUCTION; FITNESS; FLY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PEST SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER BUDGET;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 78349245549     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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