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Multiple cosmopolitan ecotypes within a microbial eukaryote morphospecies.
Protist - 1 Oct 2006
Finlay Bland J, Esteban Genoveva F, Brown Susan, Fenchel Tom, Hoef-Emden Kerstin
Abstract excerpt
Microbial eukaryotes that are morphologically indistinguishable (i.e. 'morphospecies') tend to be genetically diverse. While most protist morphospecies have cosmopolitan distribution, it has been suggested that ribotypes (unique rRNA gene sequences) or rRNA sequence clusters do have biogeography and such clusters may correlate with particular (non-morphological) adaptations. We have studied this in the ciliated...
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