Background: Ability to resist temperature shock is an important component of fitness of insects and other ectotherms. Increased resistance to temperature shock is known to affect life-history traits.
Additional file 3. Measurements of mating behaviour, genital lobe lengths and spermathecae filling levels of individuals used in the competition mating experiments.
Loss of PDF from the l- and s-vLNs by tim-Gal4-driven expression of uas-Dcr2 and uas-PDFrnai was associated with the major locomotor rhythm effects of Pdf01 under DD and LD 12∶12 conditions. y w,uas-D
Male reproductive phenotypes can evolve in response to the social and sexual environment. The expression of many such phenotypes may also be plastic within an individual’s lifetime. For example, mal