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Evolution of a Planktonic Foraminifer during Environmental Changes in the Tropical Oceans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Ujiié Yurika, Ishitani Yoshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
Ecological adaptation to environmental changes is a strong driver of evolution, enabling speciation of pelagic plankton in the open ocean without the presence of effective physical barriers to gene flow. The tropical ocean environment, which plays an important role in shaping marine biodiversity, has drastically and frequently changed since the Pliocene. Nevertheless, the evolutionary history of tropical pelagic...
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