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Linking the planktonic and benthic habitat: genetic structure of the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi
Godhe, A.; Härnström, K. (2010). Linking the planktonic and benthic habitat: genetic structure of the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi. Mol. Ecol. 19(20): 4478-4490. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04841.x
In: Molecular Ecology. Blackwell: Oxford. ISSN 0962-1083; e-ISSN 1365-294X, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Algae > Diatoms
    Aquatic communities > Plankton
    Microsatellites
    Resting stages
    Bacillariophyceae [WoRMS]; Skeletonema marinoi Sarno & Zingone, 2005 [WoRMS]

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  • Godhe, A., meer
  • Härnström, K.

Abstract
    Dormant life stages are important strategies for many aquatic organisms. The formation of resting stages will provide a refuge from unfavourable conditions in the water column, and their successive accumulation in the benthos will constitute a genetic reservoir for future planktonic populations. We have determined the genetic structure of a common bloom‐forming diatom, Skeletonema marinoi, in the sediment and the plankton during spring, summer and autumn two subsequent years (2007–2009) in Gullmar Fjord on the Swedish west coast. Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to assess the level of genetic differentiation and the respective gene diversity of the two different habitats. We also determined the degree of genetic differentiation between the seed banks inside the fjord and the open sea. The results indicate that Gullmar Fjord has one dominant endogenous population of S. marinoi, which is genetically differentiated from the open sea population. The fjord population is encountered in the plankton and in the sediment. Shifts from the dominant population can happen, and in our study, two genetically differentiated plankton populations, displaying reduced genetic diversity, occurred in September 2007 and 2008. Based on our results, we suggest that sill fjords maintain local long‐lived and well‐adapted protist populations, which continuously shift between the planktonic and benthic habitats. Intermittently, short‐lived and mainly asexually reproducing populations can replace the dominant population in the water column, without influencing the genetic structure of the benthic seed bank.

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