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Predictability of thermal fluctuations influences functional traits of a cosmopolitan marine diatom.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 27 Apr 2022
Gill Raissa L, Collins Sinead, Argyle Phoebe A, Larsson Michaela E, Fleck Robert, Doblin Martina A
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Evolutionary theory predicts that organismal plasticity should evolve in environments that fluctuate regularly. However, in environments that fluctuate less predictably, plasticity may be constrained because environmental cues become less reliable for expressing the optimum phenotype. Here, we examine how the predictability of +5°C temperature fluctuations impacts the phenotype of the marine diatom Thalassiosira...
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