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Rapid evolution of highly variable competitive abilities in a key phytoplankton species

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posted on 2023-05-20, 05:20 authored by Lennart BachLennart Bach, Lohbeck, KT, Reusch, TBH, Riebesell, U
Climate change challenges plankton communities, but evolutionary adaptation could mitigate the potential impacts. Here, we tested with the phytoplankton species Emiliania huxleyi whether adaptation to a stressor under laboratory conditions leads to equivalent fitness gains in a more natural environment. We found that fitness advantages that had evolved under laboratory conditions were masked by pleiotropic effects in natural plankton communities. Moreover, new genotypes with highly variable competitive abilities evolved on timescales significantly shorter than climate change.

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Publication title

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Pagination

611-613

ISSN

2397-334X

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature

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Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences

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