Environmental stress and the expression of genetic variation.

doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8882-0_5

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Environmental stress and the expression of genetic variation.

EXS - 1 Jan 1997

Jenkins N L, Sgrò C M, Hoffmann A A

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We have started to test the effects of environmental extremes on the expression of genetic variation for traits likely to be under selection in natural populations. We have shown that field heritability may be high for stress response traits in contrast to morphological traits, which tend to show...

Topics

Animals
Drosophila
Drosophila melanogaster
Environment
Fertility
Genetic Variation
Gryllidae
Seasons
Selection, Genetic
Temperature

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