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| Beaufort, Luc; Bolton, Clara T; Sarr, Anta-clarisse; Sucheras-marx, Baptiste; Rosenthal, Yair; Donnadieu, Yannick; Barbarin, Nicholas; Bova, Samantha; Cornuault, Pauline; Gally, Yves; Gray, Emmeline; Mazur, Jean-charles; Tetard, Martin. |
| The effect of global climate cycles driven by Earth’s orbital variations on evolution is poorly understood because of difficulties achieving sufficiently-resolved records of past evolution. The fossil remains of coccolithophores, a key calcifying phytoplankton group, enable an exceptional assessment of the impact of cyclic orbital-scale climate change on evolution because of their abundance in marine sediments, and because coccolithophores demonstrate extreme morphological plasticity in response to the changing environment1,2. Recently, evolutionary genetic analyses linked broad changes in Pleistocene fossil coccolith morphology to species radiation events3. Here, using high-resolution coccolith data, we show that during the last 2.8 million years... |
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Palavras-chave: Paleoceanography; Climate cycles; Global carbon cycle; Phytoplankton evolution; Tropical seasonality. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00658/77054/78353.pdf |
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