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Global warming: fly populations are responding rapidly to climate change.

van Heerwaarden B, Hoffmann AA

Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, Department of Genetics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.

New studies on chromosome inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila species show that the genetic constitution of populations is responding to recent climate change and that widespread species may have the potential to undergo adaptive shifts. Genetic markers in widespread species can act as indicators of climate change on natural populations.

Published 8 January 2007 in Curr Biol, 17(1): R16-8.
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