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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. Electron microscopy analyses showed significant interspecific differences in the external cellular morphology, but a similar...
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