Plasticity predicts evolution in a marine alga

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1793, 2014, Pages

  Elisa Schaum, C ^a   Collins, Sinéad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Oceanography; Ostreococcus tauri; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ACIDIFICATION; ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREEN ALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PICOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI;

EID: 84929481387     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1486     Document Type: Article

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