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Genetic variation in parthenogenetic collembolans is associated with differences in fitness and cadmium-induced transcriptome responses.
Environmental science & technology - 15 Jan 2013
Nota Benjamin, de Korte Maarten, Ylstra Bauke, van Straalen Nico M, Roelofs Dick
Abstract excerpt
Ecotoxicological tests may be biased by the use of laboratory strains that usually contain very limited genetic diversity. It is therefore essential to study how genetic variation influences stress tolerance relevant for toxicity outcomes. To that end we studied sensitivity to cadmium in two distinct genotypes of the parthogenetic soil ecotoxicological model organism Folsomia candida. Clonal lines of both...
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