Author: van Heerwaarden, B.; Hoffmann, A. A.

Year: 2007

Title: Global warming: Fly populations are responding rapidly to climate change

Journal: Current Biology

Volume: 17

Pages: R16-R18

Date: Jan

Abstract: New studies on chromosome inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila species show that the genetic constitution of populations is responding to recent climate change and that widespread species may have the potential to undergo adaptive shifts. Genetic markers in widespread species can act as indicators of climate change on natural populations.