Surviving uncertaintyBiodiversity, adaptation, and environmental fluctuation in rotifers

  1. M. Jose Carmona Navarro
  2. Manuel Serra
  3. Eduardo Moisés García Roger
  4. Raquel Ortells
Revista:
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review

ISSN: 2174-3487,  2174-9221

Año de publicación: 2020

Título del ejemplar: Shades of Science

Número: 10

Páginas: 183-191

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7203/METODE.10.14398 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review

Resumen

Studying evolution in the face of environmental uncertainty is crucial to understand biological diversity, because diversifying life strategies is key to survival and reproduction in uncertain environments. Rotifers are planktonic microinvertebrates that live in inland water bodies. Their complex life cycle combines sexual and asexual reproduction and, together with their small size and short generation times, makes them excellent model organisms in evolutionary ecology studies. Here we present field population and laboratory experimental evolution studies which show that these organisms can adapt by locally diversifying their life cycle to face unpredictable fluctuations in their environment.

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Información de financiación

Some of the work presented here was financed with public funds from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (projects CGL201230779 and CGL2015-65422-P, both co-financed with FEDER funds).

Financiadores

    • CGL201230779

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