Article
Disentangling environmental effects on adult life span in a butterfly across the metamorphic boundary.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Dec 2009
Bauerfeind Stephanie S, Perlick Jana E C, Fischer Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Life span is a central life history trait often showing tremendous variation within populations. Much of this variation can be attributed to environmental factors. In holometabolous insects life stages differ strikingly in physiology and energetic demands, and environmental variation before and after metamorphosis may not necessarily yield identical responses. In this study, we adopted a full-factorial...
Topics
- Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Climate
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hot Temperature
- Larva
- Life Cycle Stages
- Male
- Metamorphosis, Biological