The flexibility afforded to genotypes in different environments by phenotypic plasticity is of
interest to biologists studying thermal adaptation because of the thermal lability of many …

Latitudinal clines are considered a powerful means of investigating evolutionary responses
to climatic selection in nature. However, most clinal studies of climatic adaptation in …

Many biotic and abiotic variables influence the dispersal and distribution of organisms.
Temperature has a major role in determining these patterns because it changes daily …

Phenotypic plasticity may be an important initial mechanism to counter environmental
change, yet we know relatively little about the evolution of plasticity in nature. Species with …

We examined latitudinal variation in adult and larval heat tolerance in Drosophila
melanogaster from eastern Australia. Adults were assessed using static and ramping …

1. Heritable clinal patterns for stress resistance traits have been described in a number of
invertebrate species but patterns are usually characterized on populations reared under …

Acclimation and hardening represent examples of phenotypic plasticity, the extent to which
phenotypes produced by the same genotype vary under different environments. Widespread …

Tropical and subtropical species represent the majority of biodiversity. These species are
predicted to lack the capacity to evolve higher thermal limits in response to selection …

Evolutionary change of thermal traits (ie, heat tolerance and behavioural thermoregulation)
is one of the most important mechanisms exhibited by organisms to respond to global …

The occurrence of climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster is highlighted by the
presence of latitudinal clines in several quantitative traits, particularly clines in adult heat …