Assessing population and environmental effects on thermal resistance in Drosophila melanogaster using ecologically relevant assays

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 409-416

  Overgaard, Johannes ^a,b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^b   Kristensen, Torsten N ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Chill coma recovery; Cline; Critical thermal temperature; Heat tolerance; Knockdown temperature; Temperature ramping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT STRESS; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 80052857696     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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