How nutritive conditions determine life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster?
2017
Authors:
Trajković, JelenaVujić, Vukica
Selaković, Sara
Miličić, Dragana
Pavković-Lučić, Sofija
Savić, Tatjana
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Document Type:
Article (Published version)
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© 2017 University of Oklahoma
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Show full item recordAbstract:
The purpose of this research was to explore and quantify potential changes in certain life-history traits, when flies grown on carrot diet were transferred to apple diet and vice versa. Results of this research confirmed the existence of developmental plasticity when D. melanogaster flies were exposed to different nutritional environments, and that developmental time is not deeply channeled. Furthermore, presence of developmental plasticity gives flies the possibility to adjust to highly variable environmental conditions.
Keywords:
diets; life-history traits; Drosophila melanogasterSource:
Drosophila Information Service, 2017, 100, 101-105Funding / projects:
- Dynamics of gene pool, genetic and phenotypic variability of populations, determined by the environmental changes (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-173012)