Ultraviolet radiation and the snow alga Chlamydomonas nivalis (Bauer) Wille[para]

Photochemistry and Photobiology, Jun 2003 by Gorton, Holly L, Vogelmann, Thomas C

Acknowledgements-This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to T.G.V. (LEXEN IBN-97-12268) and by St. Mary's College of Maryland. The UV microscopy was made possible by the generous loan of a quartz condenser and objective lenses from Dr. Kevin Gould of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. We are grateful for the able assistance of several undergraduate students: Caroline Boice, Diane Azu and Elizabeth Krause from St. Mary's College of Maryland and Andria GrandPre and Sara Foster from the University of Wyoming. We thank the U.S. Forest Service for permission to work in the Medicine Bow National Forest.

[para]Posted on the website on28 April 2003.

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