Genetic polymorphism of cyanobacteria under permanent natural stress: A lesson from the "Evolution Canyons"

Volodymyr Dvornyk; Eviatar Nevo

doi:10.1016/S0923-2508(02)00015-3

Genetic polymorphism of cyanobacteria under permanent natural stress: A lesson from the "Evolution Canyons"

Volodymyr Dvornyk, Eviatar Nevo

Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology

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Abstract

Cyanobacteria have high adaptive potential and occur in the most extreme habitats. The available literature data indicate that the versatility of cyanobacteria is related to their higher polymorphism under stress. The studies of a filamentous cyanobacterium, Nostoc linckia, from the ecological microsite models known as "Evolution Canyons" showed that, among the evolutionary forces maintaining the higher polymorphism and genome diversity under permanent natural stress, the various types of natural selection play a key role.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	79-84
Number of pages	6
Journal	Research in Microbiology
Volume	154
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0923-2508(02)00015-3
State	Published - Mar 2003

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Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous reviewer for the helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by the Israeli National Science Foundation (grant 98-04-4963), the Israeli Discount Bank Chair of Evolutionary Biology, the Ancell-Teicher Research Foundation for Genetics and Molecular Evolution, National Health Institute (grant R01 GM60402-01A1), the State of Nebraska Cancer and Smoking Related Disease Research Program.

Keywords

"Evolution Canyon"
Cyanobacteria
Nostoc linckia
Polymorphism
Stress

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Microbiology
Molecular Biology

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