The Life History of Flabellula baltica Smirnov (Gymnamoebae, Rhizopoda): Adaptations to a Spatially and Temporally Heterogeneous Environment

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Life History of Flabellula baltica Smirnov (Gymnamoebae, Rhizopoda): Adaptations to a Spatially and Temporally Heterogeneous Environment

AU - Fenchel, Tom

N1 - Key words: Flabellula baltica; amoebae; life history; polymorphy; heterogeneous environments

PY - 2010/4

Y1 - 2010/4

N2 - The polymorphic life history of the marine naked amoeba Flabellula baltica was studied. It can be interpreted in terms of adaptations to an environment that is patchy in time and space and it represents trade-off between longevity during starvation and the ability to initiate multiplication soon after food resource become available. The life history also represents bet hedging in that different cells within a clonal culture may respond in different ways when food is depleted.

AB - The polymorphic life history of the marine naked amoeba Flabellula baltica was studied. It can be interpreted in terms of adaptations to an environment that is patchy in time and space and it represents trade-off between longevity during starvation and the ability to initiate multiplication soon after food resource become available. The life history also represents bet hedging in that different cells within a clonal culture may respond in different ways when food is depleted.

U2 - 10.1016/j.protis.2009.10.005

DO - 10.1016/j.protis.2009.10.005

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 20018561

SN - 1434-4610

VL - 161

JO - Protist

JF - Protist

IS - 2

ER -