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Article: GENETIC VARIATION IN FRUIT FLIES LINKED TO HIGHER TEMPERATURES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2006
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Fruit flies on three continents appear to be genetically adapting
to a hotter world. Until now, most species' adjustments to global
warming have involved shifting population distributions or changing
the time of breeding and migration physiological changes associated
more with temperature and season length than genetics. Those species
are still vulnerable to extinction as temperatures rise. Now a team
of researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University of
Washington, and the College of William and Mary have found that a
chromosomal mutation typical of fruit flies in warmer climates is ...
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