Evolution and maintenance of haploid-diploid life cycles in natural populations: The case of the marine brown alga Ectocarpus

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1808-1822

  Couceiro, Lucía ^a   Le Gac, Mickael ^a,b   Hunsperger, Heather M ^a,c   Mauger, Stéphane ^a   Destombe, Christophe ^a   Cock, J Mark ^a   Ahmed, Sophia ^a,d   Coelho, Susana M ^a   Valero, Myriam ^a   Peters, Akira F ^e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Bezhin Rosko   (France)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Gametophyte; Host specificity; Niche differentiation; Ploidy; Seaweed; Sporophyte

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BROWN ALGA; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LIFE CYCLE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE OVERLAP; PLOIDY; SEAWEED; SPOROPHYTE;

FRANCE; ITALY;

ALGAE; ECTOCARPUS; ECTOCARPUS SILICULOSUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SCYTOSIPHON LOMENTARIA;

BROWN ALGA; DIPLOIDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FRANCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOIDY; ITALY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIPLOIDY; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; HAPLOIDY; ITALY; PHAEOPHYTA;

EID: 84937678519     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12702     Document Type: Article

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