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Genetic diversity affects ecological performance and stress response of marine diatom populations.
The ISME journal - 1 Nov 2016
Sjöqvist Conny O, Kremp Anke
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversity is considered an important factor, stabilizing ecological functions when organisms are faced with changing environmental conditions. Although well known from terrestrial systems, documentations of this relationship from marine organisms, and particularly planktonic microorganisms, are still limited. Here we experimentally tested the effects of genotypic diversity on ecologically relevant...
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