Rethinking the thermal melanism hypothesis: Rearing temperature and coloration in pygmy grasshoppers

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1247-1257

  Forsman, Anders ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Color; Color pattern polymorphism; Complex phenotypes; Developmental plasticity; Genetic incompatibility; Pigmentation pattern; Selection conflict; Tetrix undulata

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLOR MORPH; ECTOTHERMY; GRASSHOPPER; HEATING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATERNAL EFFECT; MELANISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ORTHOPTERA; TETRIGIDAE; TETRIX UNDULATA;

EID: 80054017229     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9477-7     Document Type: Article

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