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Phenotypic plasticity in heterotrophic marine microbial communities in continuous cultures.
The ISME journal - 1 May 2015
Beier Sara, Rivers Adam R, Moran Mary Ann, Obernosterer Ingrid
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic plasticity (PP) is the development of alternate phenotypes of a given taxon as an adaptation to environmental conditions. Methodological limitations have restricted the quantification of PP to the measurement of a few traits in single organisms. We used metatranscriptomic libraries to overcome these challenges and estimate PP using the expressed genes of multiple heterotrophic organisms as a proxy for...
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