Using a "time machine" to test for local adaptation of aquatic microbes to temporal and spatial environmental variation

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-145

  Fox, Jeremy W ^a   Harder, Lawrence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Local maladaptation; Reciprocal transplant; Time shift experiment

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DATA SET; GENOTYPE; LAKE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MACHINERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC SPECIES; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POND; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; PONDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925360977     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12543     Document Type: Article

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