title: Global warming: fly populations are responding rapidly to climate change.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, Department of Genetics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Belinda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: van Heerwaarden
authors.forename: Ary A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000064:Acclimatization / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers