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Variation in adult life history and stress resistance across five species of Drosophila.
Journal of genetics - 1 Dec 2003
Sharmila Bharathi N, Prasad N G, Shakarad Mallikarjun, Joshi Amitabh
Abstract excerpt
Dry weight at eclosion, adult lifespan, lifetime fecundity, lipid and carbohydrate content at eclosion, and starvation and desiccation resistance at eclosion were assayed on a long-term laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster, and one recently wild-caught population each of four other species of Drosophila, two from the melanogaster and two from the immigrans species group. The relationships among trait...
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