{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["69(12)"],"submitter":["Kain JS"],"pubmed_abstract":["Organisms use various strategies to cope with fluctuating environmental conditions. In diversified bet-hedging, a single genotype exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity with the expectation that some individuals will survive transient selective pressures. To date, empirical evidence for bet-hedging is scarce. Here, we observe that individual Drosophila melanogaster flies exhibit striking variation in light- and temperature-preference behaviors. With a modeling approach that combines real world weather and climate data to simulate temperature preference-dependent survival and reproduction, we find that a bet-hedging strategy may underlie the observed interindividual behavioral diversity. Specifically, bet-hedging outcompetes strategies in which individual thermal preferences are heritable. Anima"],"journal":["Evolution; international journal of organic evolution"],"pagination":["3171-85"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5063146"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Variability in thermal and phototactic preferences in Drosophila may reflect an adaptive bet-hedging strategy."],"pmcid":["PMC5063146"],"pubmed_authors":["Samuel AD","Klein M","de Bivort BL","Zhang S","Kain JS","Akhund-Zade J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Variability in thermal and phototactic preferences in Drosophila may reflect an adaptive bet-hedging strategy.","description":"Organisms use various strategies to cope with fluctuating environmental conditions. In diversified bet-hedging, a single genotype exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity with the expectation that some individuals will survive transient selective pressures. To date, empirical evidence for bet-hedging is scarce. Here, we observe that individual Drosophila melanogaster flies exhibit striking variation in light- and temperature-preference behaviors. With a modeling approach that combines real world weather and climate data to simulate temperature preference-dependent survival and reproduction, we find that a bet-hedging strategy may underlie the observed interindividual behavioral diversity. Specifically, bet-hedging outcompetes strategies in which individual thermal preferences are heritable. Anima","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 Dec","modification":"2025-04-04T09:20:32.982Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:26:37Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5063146","cross_references":{"pubmed":["26531165"],"doi":["10.1111/evo.12813"]}}