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Competitive advantage and higher fitness in native populations of genetically structured planktonic diatoms.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2016
Sildever Sirje, Sefbom Josefin, Lips Inga, Godhe Anna
Abstract excerpt
It has been shown that the planktonic diatom Skeletonema from neighbouring areas are genetically differentiated despite absence of physical dispersal barriers. We revisited two sites, Mariager Fjord and Kattegat, NE Atlantic, and isolated new strains. Microsatellite genotyping and F-statistics revealed that the populations were genetically differentiated. An experiment was designed to investigate if populations...
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