Previously we have reported that selection for faster pre-adult development in fruit flies speeded-up development by similar to 29-h and shortened the clock period (tau) by similar to 0.5 h, which suggests that development ...

Insects including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are under intense pressure to develop rapidly because they inhabit ephemeral habitats. We have previously shown that when selection for faster development was ...

Circadian clocks time developmental stages of fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster, while light/dark (LD) cycles delimit emergence of adults, conceding only during the allowed gate. Previous studies have revealed that ...