Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 537-541Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00568.x
Keywords
Fluctuating environments; rapid evolution; temperature adaptation; thermal reaction norms
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- National Science Foundation [IOB-0212798, EF-0328594, IOS-0641179]
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Adaptation to temporal variation in environmental conditions is widespread. Whether evolution in a constant environment alters adaptation to temporal variation is relatively unexplored. We examine how constant and diurnally fluctuating temperature conditions affect life-history traits in two populations of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta: a field population that routinely experiences fluctuating temperatures; and a laboratory population (derived from this field population in the 1960s) maintained at a constant temperature for more than 250 generations. Our experiments demonstrate that diurnal fluctuations significantly alter body size and development time in both populations, and confirm that these populations differ in their responses to a mean temperature. However, we found no evidence for population divergence in responses to diurnal temperature fluctuations. We suggest that mean and extreme temperatures may act as more potent selective forces on thermal reaction norms than temperature variation per se.
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