A review of reproduction in the seaweed genus Fucus (Ochrophyta, Fucales): Background for renewed consideration as a model organism

WJ Hatchett, JA Coyer, K Sjøtun… - Frontiers in marine …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
The genus Fucus dominates the intertidal and shallow subtidal rocky reefs of the North
Atlantic and also is commonly found in the intertidal of the North Pacific. It likely diversified …

Frayed at the edges: selective pressure and adaptive response to abiotic stressors are mismatched in low diversity edge populations

GA Pearson, A Lago‐Leston, C Mota - Journal of Ecology, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Theory predicts that population structure and dynamics affect a population's
capacity for adaptation to environmental change. For isolated, small and fragmented …

Evidence for different thermal ecotypes in range centre and trailing edge kelp populations

NG King, NJ McKeown, DA Smale… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Determining and predicting species' responses to climate change is a fundamental goal of
contemporary ecology. When interpreting responses to warming species are often treated as …

Adaptive traits are maintained on steep selective gradients despite gene flow and hybridization in the intertidal zone

GI Zardi, KR Nicastro, F Canovas, J Ferreira Costa… - PloS one, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
Gene flow among hybridizing species with incomplete reproductive barriers blurs species
boundaries, while selection under heterogeneous local ecological conditions or along …

Thermal stress resistance of the brown alga Fucus serratus along the North-Atlantic coast: acclimatization potential to climate change

A Jueterbock, S Kollias, I Smolina, JMO Fernandes… - Marine Genomics, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Seaweed-dominated communities are predicted to disappear south of 45° latitude on North-
Atlantic rocky shores by 2200 because of climate change. The extent of predicted habitat …

Desalination effects on macroalgae (part b): Transplantation experiments at brine-impacted sites with Dictyota spp. from the Pacific Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

PT Muñoz, F Rodríguez-Rojas… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Desalination residual brines are mostly discharged to marine environments, which can
produce osmotic stress on sensitive benthic organisms. In this investigation, we performed …

A Simple and Effective Method for High Quality Co-Extraction of Genomic DNA and Total RNA from Low Biomass Ectocarpus siliculosus, the Model Brown Alga

M Greco, CA Sáez, MT Brown, MB Bitonti - PLoS One, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
The brown seaweed Ectocarpus siliculosus is an emerging model species distributed
worldwide in temperate coastal ecosystems. Over 1500 strains of E. siliculosus are available …

[HTML][HTML] Storage and ship** of tissue samples for DNA analyses: A case study on earthworms

D Straube, A Juen - European Journal of Soil Biology, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Nowadays, molecular analyses play an important role in studies of soil dwelling animals, for
example in taxonomy, phylogeography or food web analyses. The quality of the DNA, used …

Driving south: a multi-gene phylogeny of the brown algal family Fucaceae reveals relationships and recent drivers of a marine radiation

FG Cánovas, CF Mota, EA Serrão… - BMC evolutionary biology, 2011‏ - Springer
Background Understanding the processes driving speciation in marine ecosystems
remained a challenge until recently, due to the unclear nature of dispersal boundaries …