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  • Fruit flies’ embryonic stage reveals that climate adaptation begins early

    Fruit flies’ embryonic stage reveals that climate adaptation begins early

    Introduction: A window into early climate adaptation As global temperatures rise, scientists are racing to understand how living beings will adapt to faster and more extreme warming. A new study from the University of Vermont turns the lens on an unlikely but widely studied organism: the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Focusing on the embryonic stage—the…