期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1974
卷号:71
期号:5
页码:1783-1784
DOI:10.1073/pnas.71.5.1783
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster were subjected to heat and cold shock of sufficient duration and intensity to cause about 90 percent mortality. Alcohol dehydrogenase phenotypes were determined in survivors and controls. Significant changes in phenotypic frequencies occurred as a result of both treatments such that relative fitness appeared to be dependent on temperature. The alcohol dehydrogenase phenotype most frequently surviving heat under laboratory conditions is the same phenotype as that previously found to be higher in frequency in natural populations in areas with higher average temperature.