Developmental stability and environmental stress in natural populations of Drosophila pachea Academic Article

abstract

• We examined the relationship between developmental stress and fluctuating asymmetry in a natural population of Drosophila pachea, a cactophilic fruitfly. Cactus host variation was found to exert significant influence on the size of legs and of wings of emerging adults, but stressors associated with reduced size did not show the predicted increase in fluctuating asymmetry for either leg or wing length. These findings underscore questions raised by other investigators as to the broad utility of fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of environmental stress.

authors

• Hurtado, Luis
• Mateos, Mariana

published proceedings

• ECOTOXICOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

• Hurtado, L., Castrezana, S., Mateos, M., McLaurin, D., Tello, M. K., Campoy, J., & Markow, T.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Hurtado, L||Castrezana, S||Mateos, M||McLaurin, D||Tello, MK||Campoy, J||Markow, T

publication date

• July 1997

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Ecotoxicology  Journal

keywords

• Cactophilic
• Developmental Instability
• Drosophila
• Fluctuating Asymmetry
• Stress

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1023/A:1018678827931

start page

• 233

end page

• 238

volume

• 6

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1018678827931