Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Why development time matters: temperature influences plasticity while nutritional stress reshapes selection and evolutionary potential
Gregory M Walter, Avishikta Chakraborty, Fiona Cockerell…·Carla Sgro
This study shows that temperature has the largest plastic effect on development time in Drosophila, but nutritional stress more strongly influences selection and evolvability.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.31.763280