Glanville fritillary larvae from three larval families (full-sib) exposed to alternative temperature treatments during final instar stage.

ABSTRACT: We combined heritability analysis of larval development rate with a global expression analysis of this phenotype to investigate genotype by environment interactions across three ecologically relevant temperatures in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia). We focused upon the development of final instar caterpillars which is greatly affected by temperature, and during this stage the caterpillars build up most of the resources for adult life. Second generation, lab reared larvae, initially collected from the M-CM-^Eland metapopulation, were reared in standard lab condition until 6th larval instar. At the beginning of the final (7th) instar stage the larvae were separated into of three temperature conditions: Cold treatment (temperature profile: 8M-BM-0C 18:00-9:59, 14M-BM-0C 10

ORGANISM(S): Melitaea cinxia

SUBMITTER: Jouni Kvist 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-32203 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress