Phenotypic and Genomic Evidence of Adaptive Tracking in Thermal Tolerance of Wild Populations of an Invasive Drosophila.
Eleanor A. McCabe, Mathieu Gautier, Kit Eller, Miles O Garvin, Andrew R. McCracken, Sebastián Redondo, Alan O. Bergland, Alyssa S. Bangerter, Katie E. Lotterhos, Joaquin C. B. Nunez, Nicholas M. Teets
The paper examines adaptive tracking in Drosophila suzukii, finding that polygenic traits like thermal tolerance show delayed evolutionary responses, while oligogenic traits exhibit stronger seasonal genomic signatures.
bioRxiv · Feb 27, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology