A collection of Australian Drosophila datasets on climate adaptation and species distributions.

ABSTRACT: The Australian Drosophila Ecology and Evolution Resource (ADEER) collates Australian datasets on drosophilid flies, which are aimed at investigating questions around climate adaptation, species distribution limits and population genetics. Australian drosophilid species are diverse in climatic tolerance, geographic distribution and behaviour. Many species are restricted to the tropics, a few are temperate specialists, and some have broad distributions across climatic regions. Whereas some species show adaptability to climate changes through genetic and plastic changes, other species have limited adaptive capacity. This knowledge has been used to identify traits and genetic polymorphisms involved in climate change adaptation and build predictive models of responses to climate change. ADEER b

SUBMITTER: Hangartner SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658573 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature