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Whether mosquitoes can adapt apace with rapid climate warming will have a large impact on their future distributions, and consequently those of mosquito-borne diseases, but remains unknown for most species. We investigated the adaptive potential of a wide-ranging mosquito species, Aedessierrensis, by conducting a common garden experiment measuring mosquito fitness and its component life history traits. Although field-collected populations originated from vastly different thermal environments that spanned over 1,200 km, we found that populations varied in maximum fitness, but not in the thermal performance of fitness, with upper thermal limits varying by |
