The present study first addressed the question of whether developmental time (DT) and viability (VT) vary clinally along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in Drosophila buzzatii, an autochthonous specialist and the generalist invasive Drosophila melanogaster. Coincident and positive altitudinal clines across species and, direct and inverse latitudinal clines were observed for DT in D. melanogaster and D. buzzatii, respectively. Opposing latitudinal and altitudinal clines were detected for VT only in D. melanogaster. The patterns observed along altitudinal gradients prompted us to investigate whether flies living at lowland and highland environments may respond differentially to thermal treatments consisting of regimes of constant and al...
Drosophila melanogaster live across a wide latitudinal range, thus resulting in divergence in therma...
1. According to their geographical distribution, most Drosophila species may be classified as either...
The thermal biology of ectotherms is often used to infer species’ responses to changes in temperatur...
Many biotic and abiotic variables influence the dispersal and distribution of organisms. Temperature...
Background: Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical traits ac...
Temperature has profound effects on biochemical processes as suggested by the extensive variation in...
Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical traits according to t...
Abstract Background Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical t...
Clinal analysis for fitness-related traits provides a well-known approach to investigate adaptive ev...
The distribution of insects can often be related to variation in their response to thermal extremes,...
Thermal adaptation is typically detected by examining the tolerance to extreme temperatures in a few...
1. Thermal tolerance is a key factor limiting insect distributions, but there is limited information...
Fitness-related traits are often affected by temperature. Heat-resistant genotypes could influence t...
Characterizing the relationships between genotype and phenotype for developmental adaptive traits is...
The major goal of evolutionary thermal biology is to understand how variation in temperature shapes ...
Drosophila melanogaster live across a wide latitudinal range, thus resulting in divergence in therma...
1. According to their geographical distribution, most Drosophila species may be classified as either...
The thermal biology of ectotherms is often used to infer species’ responses to changes in temperatur...
Many biotic and abiotic variables influence the dispersal and distribution of organisms. Temperature...
Background: Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical traits ac...
Temperature has profound effects on biochemical processes as suggested by the extensive variation in...
Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical traits according to t...
Abstract Background Populations of Drosophila melanogaster show differences in many morphometrical t...
Clinal analysis for fitness-related traits provides a well-known approach to investigate adaptive ev...
The distribution of insects can often be related to variation in their response to thermal extremes,...
Thermal adaptation is typically detected by examining the tolerance to extreme temperatures in a few...
1. Thermal tolerance is a key factor limiting insect distributions, but there is limited information...
Fitness-related traits are often affected by temperature. Heat-resistant genotypes could influence t...
Characterizing the relationships between genotype and phenotype for developmental adaptive traits is...
The major goal of evolutionary thermal biology is to understand how variation in temperature shapes ...
Drosophila melanogaster live across a wide latitudinal range, thus resulting in divergence in therma...
1. According to their geographical distribution, most Drosophila species may be classified as either...
The thermal biology of ectotherms is often used to infer species’ responses to changes in temperatur...