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Project

Adaption and speciation in unicellular algae and their interaction with ecology
Code
3E019909
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Geology
    • General biology
    • Plant biology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
Keywords
population structure unicellular algae speciation
 
Project description
 

The population of micro-algae and how population differentiation ultimately leads to speciation is investigated. Population differentiation will be determined for natural populations, experimental evolution used to estimate adaptation rates, and their consequences for the community level determined. Finally, niche differentiation and the evolution of reproductive barriers in closely related species will ben ivestigated.In parallel, sex and mating type related genes will be identified and their evolution unraveled.