Article
Geographical analysis of diapause inducibility in European Drosophila melanogaster populations.
Journal of insect physiology - 1 Apr 2017
Pegoraro Mirko, Zonato Valeria, Tyler Elizabeth R, Fedele Giorgio, Kyriacou Charalambos P, Tauber Eran
Abstract excerpt
Seasonal overwintering in insects represents an adaptation to stressful environments and in European Drosophila melanogaster females, low temperatures and short photoperiods can induce an ovarian diapause. Diapause may represent a recent (<15Ky) adaptation to the colonisation of temperate Europe by D. melanogaster from tropical sub-Saharan Africa, because African D. melanogaster and the sibling species D....
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