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Common Ancestry Is a Poor Predictor of Competitive Traits in Freshwater Green Algae.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Narwani Anita, Alexandrou Markos A, Herrin James, Vouaux Alaina, Zhou Charles, Oakley Todd H, Cardinale Bradley J
Abstract excerpt
Phytoplankton species traits have been used to successfully predict the outcome of competition, but these traits are notoriously laborious to measure. If these traits display a phylogenetic signal, phylogenetic distance (PD) can be used as a proxy for trait variation. We provide the first investi...
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