Genotype-by-temperature interactions may help to maintain clonal diversity in asterionella formosa (bacillariophyceae)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1197-1208

  Gsell, Alena S ^a   de Senerpont Domis, Lisette N ^a   Przytulska Bartosiewicz, Anna ^b   Mooij, Wolf M ^a,c   van Donk, Ellen ^a,d   Ibelings, Bas W ^e  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Environmental variability; Fluctuating selection; Similarity; Thermal reaction norms

Indexed keywords

ASTERIONELLA FORMOSA; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84867197419     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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