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Phenotypically different microalgal morphospecies with identical ribosomal DNA: a case of rapid adaptive evolution?
Microbial ecology - 1 May 2007
Logares Ramiro, Rengefors Karin, Kremp Anke, Shalchian-Tabrizi Kamran, Boltovskoy Andrés, Tengs Torstein, Shurtleff Aaron, Klaveness Dag
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The agents driving the divergence and speciation of free-living microbial populations are still largely unknown. We investigated the dinoflagellate morphospecies Scrippsiella hangoei and Peridinium aciculiferum, which abound in the Baltic Sea and in northern temperate lakes, respectively. Electro...
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