Article
Directional selection on cold tolerance does not constrain plastic capacity in a butterfly.
BMC evolutionary biology - 5 Dec 2012
Franke Kristin, Dierks Anneke, Fischer Klaus
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Organisms may respond to environmental change by means of genetic adaptation, phenotypic plasticity or both, which may result in genotype-environment interactions (G x E) if genotypes differ in their phenotypic response. We here specifically target the latter source of variation (i.e. G x E) by comparing plastic responses among lines of the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana that had been selected...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Cold Temperature
- Environment
- Female
- Genotype
- Inbreeding
- Larva
- Longevity
- Male