The effect of developmental temperature fluctuation on wing traits and stressed locomotor performance in Drosophila melanogaster, and its dependence on heterozygosity

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 803-819

  Kjærsgaard, Anders ^a,b   Le, Nguyet ^a   Demontis, Ditte ^a   Novičič, Zorana Kurbalija ^c   Loeschcke, Volker ^a   Pertoldi, Cino ^a,d,e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e AALBORG ZOO   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental variation; Inbreeding depression; Locomotor activity; Non linear reaction norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874925966     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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