Thermal tolerance and preference are both consistent with the clinal distribution of house fly proto-Y chromosomes.

ABSTRACT: Selection pressures can vary within localized areas and across massive geographical scales. Temperature is one of the best studied ecologically variable abiotic factors that can affect selection pressures across multiple spatial scales. Organisms rely on physiological (thermal tolerance) and behavioral (thermal preference) mechanisms to thermoregulate in response to environmental temperature. In addition, spatial heterogeneity in temperatures can select for local adaptation in thermal tolerance, thermal preference, or both. However, the concordance between thermal tolerance and preference across genotypes and sexes within species and across populations is greatly understudied. The house fly, Musca domestica, is a well-suited system to examine how genotype and environment interact to

SUBMITTER: Delclos PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8484723 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature