Keeping your options open: Maintenance of thermal plasticity during adaptation to a stable environment

Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 195-206

  Fragata, Inês ^a   Lopes Cunha, Miguel ^a   Bárbaro, Margarida ^a   Kellen, Bárbara ^a   Lima, Margarida ^a   Faria, Gonçalo S ^a   Seabra, Sofia G ^a   Santos, Mauro ^b   Simões, Pedro ^a   Matos, Margarida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinal variation; Drosophila; Experimental evolution; Reaction norms; Thermal plasticity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINE; COLONIZATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; LABORATORY METHOD; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION;

EUROPE;

DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROSOPHILA; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROSOPHILA; EUROPE; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84955628000     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12828     Document Type: Article

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