Response to Comment on "Global Genetic Change Tracks Global Climate Warming in Drosophila subobscura"
Joan Balanyà,1*
Josep M. Oller,2
Raymond B. Huey,3
George W. Gilchrist,4
Luis Serra1
Rodríguez-Trelles and Rodríguez advocate standardizing
old and new collections by climate rather than by calendar and
also propose that some of our samples were biased by inappropriate
timing. Their first suggestion applies to few species, and its
implementation alters photoperiodic cues. Their second point
is valid, but our conclusions are robust: Observed genetic changes
reflect global warming, not sampling artifacts.
2 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona 08071, Spain.
3 Department of Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195–1800, USA.
4 Department of Biology, Box 8795, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187–8795, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jbalanya{at}ub.edu
