Effect of fluctuating temperatures on the development of a forensically important blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Environ Entomol
; 42(1): 167-72, 2013 Feb.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23339798
ABSTRACT
Experiments were conducted to compare the immature development of Protophormia terraenovae (Robineau-Desvoidy) at fluctuating temperatures of 4-28 and 9-23 °C to their mean constant temperature, 16 °C. Overall development was fastest at the greater fluctuation and slowest at the constant temperature but showed similar percentages of development time in each stage. The rate summation effect is suspected to have caused this difference in development rate because fluctuations above the mean increase the rate relatively more than temperatures below the mean can lower the rate.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Temperatura
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Dípteros
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Environ Entomol
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá