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Provedor de dados: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Phenotypic plasticity in colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura	
Autores: 	Pegueroles,Glòria; Mestres,Francesc; Argemí,Mercè; Serra,Lluís.	
Data: 	1999-12-01	
Ano: 	1999	
Resumo: 	The phenotypic plasticity of some quantitative traits of two colonizing populations of Drosophila subobscura (Davis and Eureka, California) was studied. Temperature effects and the effect of rearing in the laboratory were studied. Laboratory rearing during four generations at 18ºC significantly increased the wing and tibial length. This increase was similar to that obtained when the flies were reared at 13ºC during two generations.The low temperature environment can be considered more stressful for females than for males, as shown by the increase of phenotypic variance. The two populations analyzed had great phenotypic plasticity in spite of the genetic bottleneck during the colonization event. Our study shows that keeping flies for a relatively short time in the laboratory significantly changes some quantitative traits, emphasizing the need to analyze flies immediately after collecting them in order to obtain reliable estimates for the analysis of these traits in natural populations.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000400008	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1415-47571999000400008	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.22 n.4 1999	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess