Body size traits in the flightless bush-cricket are plastic rather than locally adapted along an elevational gradient

• Published in: Evolutionary ecology Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 509 - 530
• Main Authors: Jarčuška, Benjamín, Krištín, Anton, Kaňuch, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2023; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Animal behavior; Animal Ecology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Body size; Crickets; Ecology; Environmental factors; Evolutionary Biology; Femur; Gene flow; Heterogeneity; laboratory rearing; Life Sciences; Morphology; Original Paper; Ovipositor; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant Sciences; Plastic properties; Plasticity; Population genetics; Populations; Reproducibility; Sex; Tettigoniidae; Tibia; Phenotypic plasticity; Repeatability; Insect; Local adaptation; Common garden experiment; Morphological traits

Elevational gradients are closely associated with strong abiotic variation at small spatial scales and provide a powerful tool to assess species’ adjustments to climatic and other environmental factors. To understand the role of genetic underpinning and environmentally-induced plasticity on body siz...