Potential for adaptation to climate change: family-level variation in fitness-related traits and their responses to heat waves in a snail population.
Katja LeichtKatri SeppäläOtto SeppäläPublished in: BMC evolutionary biology (2017)
Our results suggest that there is genetic potential for adaptation within both thermal environments and that trait evolution may not be strongly affected by trade-offs between them. However, rare differences in thermal reaction norms across families indicate limited evolutionary potential in the responses of snails to changing temperatures during extreme weather events.