Co-gradient variation in growth rate and development time of a broadly distributed butterfly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Barton, Madeleine ^a   Sunnucks, Paul ^b   Norgate, Melanie ^b   Murray, Neil ^c   Kearney, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; HETERONYMPHA MEROPE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REARING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; LEPIDOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; GENOTYPE; LEPIDOPTERA; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84899698363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095258     Document Type: Article

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