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Aaron Shurtleff
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Aaron Shurtleff is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ribosomal DNA & Ribosomal RNA. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 113 citations.
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Phenotypically Different Microalgal Morphospecies with Identical Ribosomal DNA: A Case of Rapid Adaptive Evolution?
Ramiro Logares,Karin Rengefors,Anke Kremp,Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi,Andrés Boltovskoy,Torstein Tengs,Aaron Shurtleff,Dag Klaveness +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the lacustrine P. aciculiferum and the marine-brackish S. hangoei diverged very recently, after a marine–freshwater transition that exposed the ancestral populations to different selective pressures, indicating a significant role of natural selection in the divergence of free-living microbes, despite their virtually unrestricted dispersal capabilities.