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Does Adaptation Occur in Insect Rearing Systems, or is it A Case of Selection, Acclimatization and Domestication?

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Rather than a true adaptive process, laboratory colonization is proposed to depend on the plasticity of the tolerance limits in insect species. Insects will establish successfully in captivity if the magnitude of environmental variables are within the insects’ ranges of colonization. Optimum physiological and behavioural responses are obtained when the variables are within the smaller preferred range of colonization. Other concomitant processes at colonization are selection, acclimatization and domestication. Definition of the terms “adaptation”, “acclimatization” and “domestication”, commonly misused in describing processes during laboratory colonization are proposed.

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La colonisation des insects depend de leur limite de tolerances au laboratoire mais pas au fait pas d’un vrai processus d’adaptation. Les insectes peuvent s’etablir en captivite; si les variables environnementales sont dans la limite acceptable. Les reponses physiologiques et du comportement optimale sont obtenues quand les variables sont pres des valeurs minimales de la colonisation — Les autres facteurs affectant la colonisation sont la selection, l’acclimatisation et la domestication. Les definitions desces mots sou vent mal interpretées pendant la colonisation des insectes au laboratoire sont proposees.

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Ochieng’-Odero, J.P.R. Does Adaptation Occur in Insect Rearing Systems, or is it A Case of Selection, Acclimatization and Domestication?. Int J Trop Insect Sci 15, 1–7 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400016696

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