Coping with Temperature at the Warm Edge – Patterns of Thermal Adaptation in the Microbial Eukaryote Paramecium caudatum

Sascha Krenek; Thomas Petzoldt; Thomas U. Berendonk

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030598

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Coping with Temperature at the Warm Edge – Patterns of Thermal Adaptation in the Microbial Eukaryote Paramecium caudatum

Sascha Krenek ,

* E-mail: Sascha.Krenek@TU-Dresden.de

Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Thomas Petzoldt,

Affiliation Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Thomas U. Berendonk

Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Coping with Temperature at the Warm Edge – Patterns of Thermal Adaptation in the Microbial Eukaryote Paramecium caudatum

Sascha Krenek,
Thomas Petzoldt,
Thomas U. Berendonk

Published: March 9, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030598

About the Authors

Sascha Krenek

* E-mail: Sascha.Krenek@TU-Dresden.de

Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Petzoldt

Affiliation Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Thomas U. Berendonk

Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK TUB. Performed the experiments: SK. Analyzed the data: SK TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK TP TUB. Wrote the paper: SK TP TUB.

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