Adjusting to the extreme : Thermal adaptation in a freshwater gastropod

• Main Author: Johansson, Magnus
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Zooekologi 2015
• Subjects: Radix balthica; Lake Mývatn; geothermal springs; thermal adaptation; isolation by environment; population structure; gene flow; cogradient variation; AFLP; thermal preference; CTmax; Mývatn; Iceland
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-248495

Temperature is a ubiquitous force influencing biological processes ranging from cellular responses to life span. The thermal environment for many organisms is predicted to change with globally increasing temperatures and studies conducted in natural systems incorporating various evolutionary forces,...