Phenotypic Responses to and Genetic Architecture of Sterility Following Exposure to Sub-Lethal Temperature During Development.

ABSTRACT: Thermal tolerance range, based on temperatures that result in incapacitating effects, influences species' distributions and has been used to predict species' response to increasing temperature. Reproductive performance may also be negatively affected at less extreme temperatures, but such sublethal heat-induced sterility has been relatively ignored in studies addressing the potential effects of, and ability of species' to respond to, predicted climate warming. The few studies examining the link between increased temperature and reproductive performance typically focus on adults, although effects can vary between life history stages. Here we assessed how sublethal heat stress during development impacted subsequent adult fertility and its plasticity, both of which can provide the raw materia

SUBMITTER: Zwoinska MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283914 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature