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Desiccation tolerance survival curves for males (a) and females (b) for two natural populations of D. melanogaster collected from Africa and North America. The assays were run immediately after exposure to three different temperature (18, 25, and 30°C) conditions post‐eclosion for 48 hr. Overall African populations performed better than North American populations under desiccating conditions
