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G Cavieres1, J M Bogdanovich1, F Bozinovic1

  • 1Departamento de Ecología and Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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PubMed

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Drosophila melanogasterenvironmental variabilityglobal warmingontogenyperformancethermal tolerance

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