A species of damselfish, Stegastes nigricans, selectively weed the algal gardens on which they feed in order to encourage the growth of their preferred algal species of Polysiphonia and suppress the ...
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EFFORTS to obtain axenic cultures of red algae hitherto have been successful only with unicellular species 1,2 or multicellular species with monosiphonous thalli 3,4.
Red algae present a remarkable opportunity to explore the interwoven histories of taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics. Recent endeavours have increasingly demonstrated that traditional morphological ...