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Chytrid epidemics may increase genetic diversity of a diatom spring-bloom.
The ISME journal - 1 Oct 2013
Gsell Alena S, de Senerpont Domis Lisette N, Verhoeven Koen J F, van Donk Ellen, Ibelings Bastiaan W
Abstract excerpt
Contrary to expectation, populations of clonal organisms are often genetically highly diverse. In phytoplankton, this diversity is maintained throughout periods of high population growth (that is, blooms), even though competitive exclusion among genotypes should hypothetically lead to the dominan...
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