Identification of north-western Atlantic Porphyra (Bangiaceae, Bangiales) based on sequence variation in nuclear SSU and plastid rbcL genes

• Published in: Phycologia
• Main Authors: Klein, Anita S., Mathieson, Arthur C., Neefus, Christopher D., Cain, Danielle F., Taylor, Heather A., Teasdale, Brian W., West, Andrew L., Hehre, Edward J., Brodie, Juliet, Yarish, Charles, Wallace, Aaron L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2003
• Subjects: Canada; Herring Cove; Long Island; Long Island Sound; North East Atlantic; North West Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/jel/299; https://doi.org/10.2216/i0031-8884-42-2-109.1

Six species of Porphyra have commonly been recognized in the north-western Atlantic from Long Island Sound to the Canadian Maritimes: P. amplissima, P. leucosticra, P. linearis, P. miniata, P. purpurea, and P. umbilicalis. Distinguishing them with certainty has been problematic. A DNA-based system o...