Within-population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time.

Abstract excerpt

Ongoing climate change has forced animals to face changing thermal and nutritional environments. Animals can adjust to such combinations of stressors via plasticity. Body size is a key trait influencing organismal fitness, and plasticity in this trait in response to nutritional and thermal conditions varies among genetically diverse, locally adapted populations. The standing genetic variation within a population...

Topics

• Animals
• Drosophila melanogaster
• Temperature
• Phenotype
• Genotype
• Body Size