Strong Costs and Benefits of Winter Acclimatization in Drosophila melanogaster.

Studies on thermal acclimation in insects are often performed on animals acclimated in the laboratory under conditions that are not ecologically relevant. Costs and benefits of acclimation responses under such conditions may not reflect costs and benefits in natural populations subjected to daily an...

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Main Authors: Mads Fristrup Schou, Volker Loeschcke, Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4468168?pdf=render