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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spatial and Temporal Genetic Heterogeneity in a Natural Daphnia Population: Ecological and Physiological Differences Between Genotypes (Cladocera, Freshwater, Parthenogenesis)
Abstract
dc:descriptionA three and one-half year study of spatial and temporal genetic heterogeneity in a population of the cyclically, parthenogenetic cladoceran, Daphnia pulex, inhabiting a permanent farm pond in east-central Illinois, indicated that electrophoretically distinct genotypes (clones) are frequently distributed non-randomly in the pond, both vertically and horizontally. Spatial autocorrelation analysis indicated that the genotypic distributions exhibited significant horizontal spatial pattern on occasion. The horizontal pattern may be influenced greatly by the vertical component (depth factors at a given station) as demonstrated by a series of vertical-horizontal transect surveys.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Weider, Lawrence J.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8422173
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77620