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JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY
卷 38, 期 7, 页码 396-406出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2013.05.004
关键词
Heat and cold tolerance; Geographical and seasonal variation; Absolute and relative hardening capacity; Relative abundance; D. nasuta; D. immigrans
资金
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi [21(0847)/11/EMR-II]
- UGC, New Delhi [RGNF-SC-HAR-7423]
We investigated associations of the species specific divergence of thermal adaptations of Drosophila nasuta and Drosophila immigrans with seasonal as well as geographical changes in the relative abundance. In D. immigrans, cold resistance and egg-to-adult viability after a cold-shock have shown a positive dine with latitude, whereas no such clinal patterns were evident for heat resistance as well as egg-to-adult viability after heat stress. In contrast, basal heat tolerance and egg-to-adult viability after a heat-shock increased towards the equator i.e. from north to south in D. nasuta. Further, we also found species-specific divergence in seasonal climatic selection responses for heat as well as cold resistance i.e. warmer and higher humidity conditions of the rainy season have evidenced similar to 2-fold higher heat tolerance of D. nasuta, but lower temperature as well as lower humidity conditions of the autumn significantly increased (similar to 3-fold) cold tolerance of D. immigrans. Geographical variations were significant for the absolute and relative hardening capacity for cold tolerance in D. immigrans, but for heat resistance of D. nasuta. Results of multiple regression analysis of changes in thermal tolerance level in latitudinal populations as a simultaneous function of climatic variables ( T-ave and RH) have shown that average yearly relative humidity levels significantly affect heat tolerance of D. nasuta, but both T-ave and RH contribute to changes in the cold tolerance of D. immigrans. Thus, our results suggest that climatic selection responses for basal and hardened thermo-tolerance levels affect relative abundance of D. nasuta and D. immigrans across a latitudinal transect as well as seasons. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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