L (Ramki) Ramakrishnan asked:
>This is to inquire if anyone knows of instances of Chlamydomonas being
> used as a model system for ecological studies such as those of
>food web theory or population dynamics.
>
See the following papers by Graham Bell:
Bell, G. (1990). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. I.
Genotype-by-environment interaction among pure strains. Proc. Roy. Soc.
Lond. [Biol.] 240, 295-321.
Bell, G. (1990). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas.
II. The properties of mixtures of strains. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. [Biol.]
240, 323-350.
Bell, G. (1991). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas.
III. Genotype-by-environment interaction within strains. Evolution 45,
668-679.
Bell, G. (1991). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas.
IV. The properties of mixtures of genotypes of the same species. Evolution
45, 1036-1046.
Bell, G. (1992). Five properties of environments. In: Grant, P.R., and
H.S. Horn (ed.), Molds, Molecules, and Metazoa: Growing Points in
Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Press, pp. 33-56.
Bell, G. (1992). The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. V.
The relationship between genetic correlation and environmental variance.
Evolution. 46, 561-566.
Also, there are some papers on Chlamy as food for Daphnia that might
possibly be relevant. The references keep coming up on my automated
literature searches, but I didn't include them in the Sourcebook.
Elizabeth Harris
chlamy at acpub.duke.edu
