Slow and population specific evolutionary response to a warming environment.

ABSTRACT: Adaptation to increasingly warmer environments may be critical to avoid extinction. Whether and how these adaptive responses can arise is under debate. Though several studies have tackled evolutionary responses under different thermal selective regimes, very few have specifically addressed the underlying patterns of thermal adaptation under scenarios of progressive warming conditions. Also, considering how much past history affects such evolutionary response is critical. Here, we report a long-term experimental evolution study addressing the adaptive response of Drosophila subobscura populations with distinct biogeographical history to two thermal regimes. Our results showed clear differences between the historically differentiated populations, with adaptation to the warming conditions onl

SUBMITTER: Santos MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272154 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature