PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND EVOLUTION OF THERMAL TOLERANCE IN BACTERIA FROM TEMPERATE AND HOT SPRING ENVIRONMENTS

Phenotypic plasticity allows individuals to respond to the selective forces of a new environment, followed by adaptive evolution.We do not know to what extent phenotypic plasticity allows thermal tolerance evolution in bacteria at the border of their physiological limits.We analyzed growth and reaction norms to temperature of strains of two bacteri

Room Spray Lichen biomonitoring programs focus on temporal variations in epiphytic lichen communities in relation to the effects of atmospheric pollution.As repeated surveys are planned at medium to long term intervals, the alternation of different operators is often possible.This involves the need to consider the effect of non-sampling errors (e.g