Common Ancestry Is a Poor Predictor of Competitive Traits in Freshwater Green Algae.

Phytoplankton species traits have been used to successfully predict the outcome of competition, but these traits are notoriously laborious to measure. If these traits display a phylogenetic signal, phylogenetic distance (PD) can be used as a proxy for trait variation. We provide the first investigat...

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Main Authors: Anita Narwani, Markos A Alexandrou, James Herrin, Alaina Vouaux, Charles Zhou, Todd H Oakley, Bradley J Cardinale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4562640?pdf=render