An experimental test of the relationship between melanism and desiccation survival in insects
Subhash Rajpurohit, Lisa Marie Peterson, Andrew Orr, Anthony J. Marlon, Allen G Gibbs
This study tests the melanism-desiccation hypothesis by selecting for pigmentation and desiccation survival in Drosophila, finding no strong link between melanism and desiccation tolerance.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2014Evolutionary Biology