Rapid adaptation of phytoplankters to geothermal waters is achieved by single mutations: Were extreme environments 'Noah's Arks' for photosynthesizers during the Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth'?

New Phytologist

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 922-932

  Costas, Eduardo ^a   Flores Moya, Antonio ^b   López Rodas, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Campus de Teatinos s n   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dictyosphaerium; Geothermal waters; Microcystis; Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth'; Survival photosynthesizers

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ADAPTATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROALGA; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEROZOIC; REFUGE; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ICE COVER; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; THERMAL SPRING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALGAE, GREEN; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; HOT SPRINGS; ICE COVER; MICROCYSTIS; MUTATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SELECTION (GENETICS); STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CYANOBACTERIA; DICTYOSPHAERIUM; DICTYOSPHAERIUM CHLORELLOIDES; LURIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 55649088305     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02620.x     Document Type: Article

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