SEMINAR: How Food Becomes Family: Evolutionary Secrets of Biodiversity in the Eukaryotic Phytoplankton
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How Food Becomes Family: Evolutionary Secrets of Biodiversity in the Eukaryotic Phytoplankton : SESE and Oceans Institute Special Seminar |
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t is generally understood that the marine realm provides a great abundance and diversity of foods, medicines and raw materials, but the wealth of the sea is finite and poorly mapped. As one of the most important sources of biodiversity in the ocean,phytoplankton span many kingdoms of the tree of life, and much of their genetic and ecological diversity has yet to be described. Here I review the curious evolutionary history of these fascinating organisms, demonstrating the close relationship between their food ingestion, symbiosis, and evolution. I reveal the fundamental importance of questioning some long-term myths about what processes limit diversity in a group of organisms whose photosynthesis and nutrient dynamics underpin the base of the marine food chain.
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