Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
An experimental test of the relationship between melanism and desiccation survival in insects
Subhash Rajpurohit, Lisa Marie Peterson, Andrew Orr…·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.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0163414