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Abstract:

Stress resistance characters are valuable tools for the study of acclimation potential, adaptive strategies and biogeographic patterns in species exposed to environmental variability. Water stress is a challenge to terrestrial arthropods because of their small size and relatively high area: volume ratio. Fruit flies have been investigated to record adaptive morphological and physiological traits, as well as to test their responses to stressful factors. In this study, we investigate the ability to cope with water stress, by examining variation in desiccation resistance in a species that lives mainly in desert lands. Specifically, we explored the genetic and ecological basis of desiccation resistance in populations of Drosophila buzzatii from Northern Argentina. We used a common garden experiment with desiccation treatments on a number of isofemale lines from four populations along an aridity gradient. Our results revealed significant among-population differentiation and substantial amounts of genetic variation for desiccation resistance. We also detected significant genotype-by-environment and genotype-by-sex interactions indicative that desiccation resistance responses of the lines assayed were environment- and sex-specific. In addition, we observed clinal variation in female desiccation resistance along gradients of altitude, temperature and humidity; that desiccation resistance is a sexually dimorphic trait, and that sexual dimorphism increased along the aridity and altitudinal gradients. Based on current evidence, we propose that the observed sex-specific responses may reflect different life history traits, and survival and reproductive strategies in different ecological scenarios. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Desiccation resistance along an aridity gradient in the cactophilic fly Drosophila buzzatii: Sex-specific responses to stress
Autor:Sassi, P.L.; Hasson, E.
Filiación:Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución and IEGEBA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Grupo de Investigaciones de la Biodiversidad, CONICET, IADIZA, CCT-Mendoza, Av. Ruiz Leal s/n, Parque Gral. San Martín, CC 507 (5500) Mendoza, Argentina
Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución and IEGEBA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Clines; Desiccation resistance; Drosophila; Intraspecific variation; Sexual dimorphism; adaptation; aridity; cline; desiccation; environmental stress; evolutionary biology; fly; genetic variation; genotype-environment interaction; intraspecific variation; life history trait; reproductive strategy; sex-related difference; sexual dimorphism; survival; water stress; Argentina; Arthropoda; Drosophila buzzatii
Año:2013
Volumen:27
Número:3
Página de inicio:505
Página de fin:519
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9616-9
Título revista:Evolutionary Ecology
Título revista abreviado:Evol. Ecol.
ISSN:02697653
CODEN:EVECE
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_02697653_v27_n3_p505_Sassi

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Sassi, P.L. & Hasson, E. (2013) . Desiccation resistance along an aridity gradient in the cactophilic fly Drosophila buzzatii: Sex-specific responses to stress. Evolutionary Ecology, 27(3), 505-519.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9616-9
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Sassi, P.L., Hasson, E. "Desiccation resistance along an aridity gradient in the cactophilic fly Drosophila buzzatii: Sex-specific responses to stress" . Evolutionary Ecology 27, no. 3 (2013) : 505-519.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9616-9
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Sassi, P.L., Hasson, E. "Desiccation resistance along an aridity gradient in the cactophilic fly Drosophila buzzatii: Sex-specific responses to stress" . Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 27, no. 3, 2013, pp. 505-519.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9616-9
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Sassi, P.L., Hasson, E. Desiccation resistance along an aridity gradient in the cactophilic fly Drosophila buzzatii: Sex-specific responses to stress. Evol. Ecol. 2013;27(3):505-519.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9616-9