Article
Hotter is better and broader: thermal sensitivity of fitness in a population of bacteriophages.
The American naturalist - 1 Apr 2009
Knies Jennifer L, Kingsolver Joel G, Burch Christina L
Abstract excerpt
Hotter is better is a hypothesis of thermal adaptation that posits that the rate-depressing effects of low temperature on biochemical reactions cannot be overcome by physiological plasticity or genetic adaptation. If so, then genotypes or populations adapted to warmer temperatures will have higher maximum growth rates than those adapted to low temperatures. Here we test hotter is better by measuring thermal...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Bayes Theorem
- Genotype
- Hot Temperature
- Microvirus
- Models, Biological
- Models, Genetic
- Phylogeny