Distinctive morphological features, life-cycle phases and seasonal variations in subtropical populations of Dictyota dichotoma (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae)

• Published in: Botanica Marina
• Main Authors: Tronholm, Ana, Sanson, Marta, Afonso-Carrillo, Julio, De Clerck, Olivier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: morphology; nuclear ribosomal sequence data (LSU rDNA); Dictyota dichotoma; Canary Islands; COAST; ALGAE; ISLANDS; PATTERNS; AUSTRALIA; phenology; PERIODICITY; NORTH-ATLANTIC; REPRODUCTION; seasonal variation; Holdfast; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/746115; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-746115; https://doi.org/10.1515/BOT.2008.017

Although it has been suggested that the distribution of Dictyota dichotoma is probably restricted to the European Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, its occurrence in the Canary Islands (new southernmost distribution limit) is confirmed by nuclear ribosomal sequence data (LSU rDNA). Even thou...