Achieving temperature-size changes in a unicellular organism

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-36

  Forster, Jack ^a   Hirst, Andrew G ^a   Esteban, Genoveva F ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIOMASS; CELL ORGANELLE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTIST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOMASS; CELL DIVISION; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; TEMPERATURE;

CYCLIDIUM GLAUCOMA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84871392994     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.76     Document Type: Article

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