Locally-adapted reproductive photoperiodism determines population vulnerability to climate change in burying beetles

Understanding whether intraspecific trait variation results from local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity is crucial to predict species responses to climate change. Here the authors investigate geographically distinct burying beetle populations, showing that photoperiodism is a locally adapted, not...

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Main Authors: Hsiang-Yu Tsai, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Yu-Meng Fan, Tzu-Neng Yuan, Bo-Fei Chen, Yezhong Tang, I-Ching Chen, Sheng-Feng Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15208-w