Wing spot in a tropical and a temperate drosophilid: C = C enrichment and conserved thermal response.

ABSTRACT: Wings are primarily used in flight but also play a role in mating behaviour in many insects. Drosophila species exhibit a variety of pigmentation patterns on their wings. In some sexually dimorphic Drosophilids, a pigmented spot pattern is found at the top-right edge of the male wings. Our understanding of wing spot thermal plasticity in sexually dimorphic species is limited with wing spots being primarily associated with sexual selection. Here, we investigated the wing pigmentation response of two species with wing spots: D. biarmipes and D. suzukii species to thermal variation. We exposed freshly hatched larvae of both the species to three different growth temperatures and checked for wing pigmentation in adult males. Our results indicate wing pigmentation is a plastic trait in the speci

SUBMITTER: Garg D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755964 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature