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How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming? | eLife

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The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change. Climate adaptation may be particularly likely for short-lived ectotherms, including many pest, pathogen, and vector species. For these taxa, estimating climate adaptive potential is critical for accurate predictive modeling and public health preparedness. Here, we demonstrate how a simple theoretical framework used in conservation biology—evolutionary rescue models—can be used to investigate the potential for climate adaptation in these taxa, using mosquito thermal adaptation as a focal case. Synthesizing current evidence, we find that short mosquito generation times, high population growth rates, and strong temperature-imposed selection favor thermal adaptation. However, knowledge gaps about the extent of phenotypic and genotypic variation in thermal tolerance within mosquito populations, the environmenta

How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming? | eLife Version of Record August 17, 2021 Download Cite Share Comment Open annotations (there are currently 0 annotations on this page). 7,607 views 1,018 downloads 92 citations Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media. See more details Share this article Doi Copy to clipboard Cite this article Lisa I Couper Johannah E Farner Jamie M Caldwell Marissa L Childs Mallory J Harris Devin G Kirk Nicole Nova Marta Shocket Eloise B Skinner Lawrence H Uricchio Moises Exposito-Alonso Erin A Mordecai (2021) Ho

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