How eukaryotic algae can adapt to the Spain's Rio Tinto: A neo-Darwinian proposal for rapid adaptation to an extremely hostile ecosystem

New Phytologist

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 334-339

  Costas, Eduardo ^a   Flores Moya, Antonio ^b   Perdigones, Nieves ^a   Maneiro, Emilia ^a   Blanco, José Luis ^a   García, Marta Eulalia ^a   López Rodas, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acidic environments; Adaptation; Dictyosphaerium; Microcystis; Rio Tinto

Indexed keywords

ACID; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ALGA; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ALGA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SPAIN; TIME;

ACIDS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGAE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; RIVERS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; RIO TINTO [(RVR) HUELVA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALGAE; DICTYOSPHAERIUM; DICTYOSPHAERIUM CHLORELLOIDES; EUKARYOTA; LURIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34250881505     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02095.x     Document Type: Article

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