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Restricted distribution and limited gene flow in the model ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2013
Zufall Rebecca A, Dimond Kristen L, Doerder F Paul
Abstract excerpt
The biogeography of microbial eukaryotes has long been debated, but few phylogeographic data have been available to assess whether protists tend to have ubiquitous or endemic distributions. We addressed this issue in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a highly successful model system in cell and molecular biology. We found that this species has a distribution that is restricted to the Eastern United States,...
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