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Pole-to-Pole Gene Flow in Protozoan Ciliates

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Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2

Part of the book series: From Pole to Pole ((POLE))

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Microorganisms represent the smallest but arguably most important component of the ocean life. They are essential to all nutrient cycles because they form the bottom of the marine food chain and outnumber all other marine species by orders of magnitude.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA) and Dr. Martha Dunbar for helpful suggestions in the English revision of the text.

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Pisa, via Volta 4, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Graziano Di Giuseppe & Fernando Dini

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali e Naturali, University of Camerino, via Gentile III da Varano, 63032, Camerino, MC, Italy

    Claudio Alimenti, Adriana Vallesi & Pierangelo Luporini

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Di Giuseppe, G., Dini, F., Alimenti, C., Vallesi, A., Luporini, P. (2013). Pole-to-Pole Gene Flow in Protozoan Ciliates. In: Verde, C., di Prisco, G. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0_4

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