20.500.12556/DiRROS-19547 Genotype-environment interactions rule the response of a widespread butterfly to temperature variation Understanding how organisms adapt to complex environments is a central goal of evolutionary biology and ecology. This issue is of special interest in the current era of rapidly changing climatic conditions. Here, we investigate clinal variation and plastic responses in life history, morphology and physiology in the butterfly Pieris napi along a pan‐European gradient by exposing butterflies raised in captivity to different temperatures. We found clinal variation in body size, growth rates and concomitant development time, wing aspect ratio, wing melanization and heat tolerance. Individuals from warmer environments were more heat‐tolerant and had less melanised wings and a shorter development, but still they were larger than individuals from cooler environments. These findings suggest selection for rapid growth in the warmth and for wing melanization in the cold, and thus fine‐tuned genetic adaptation to local climates. Irrespective of the origin of butterflies, the effects of higher developmental temperature were largely as expected, speeding up development; reducing body size, potential metabolic activity and wing melanization; while increasing heat tolerance. At least in part, these patterns likely reflect adaptive phenotypic plasticity. In summary, our study revealed pronounced plastic and genetic responses, which may indicate high adaptive capacities in our study organism. Whether this may help such species, though, to deal with current climate change needs further investigation, as clinal patterns have typically evolved over long periods. biologija metulji vpliv okolja temperaturna nihanja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2024-07-19 03:44:54 2024-07-23 12:29:32 2024-07-24 03:47:57 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 str. 920-929 iss. 7 Vol. 33 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2020-07-01 57 1010-061X 10.1111/jeb.13623 40591109 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.13623 1 bb42f90b-455f-11ef-b487-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=26947 RAZ_Gunter_Franziska_2020.pdf RAZ_Gunter_Franziska_2020.pdf 1 0F78C017FD479AA1DC4A994E2431FB84 8eb5947aade02f5bd76b65e8e38243a858599a158f60adcfebe948f89442ea6c 1db00896-48ce-11ef-b487-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=27177 Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo 0 0 0