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Ecology
Habitat
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 61 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 565
Temperature range (°C): 11.471 - 27.099
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.086 - 6.816
Salinity (PPS): 34.929 - 38.444
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.484 - 6.213
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.083 - 0.709
Silicate (umol/l): 0.777 - 6.221
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Depth range (m): 0 - 565
Temperature range (°C): 11.471 - 27.099
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.086 - 6.816
Salinity (PPS): 34.929 - 38.444
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.484 - 6.213
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.083 - 0.709
Silicate (umol/l): 0.777 - 6.221
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
| Specimen Records: | 777 | Public Records: | 4 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 439 | Public Species: | 2 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 410 | Public BINs: | 2 |
| Species: | 52 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 43 | ||
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Barcode data
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Locations of barcode samples
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Polysiphonia
Polysiphonia is a genus of red alga with about 19 species on the coasts of the British Isles [1] and about 200 species world-wide, including Crete in Greece, Antarctica and Greenland. [2][3] Its members are known by a number of common names.[note 1][2] It is in the Order Ceramiales and Family Rhodomelaceae. [4]
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Description
Polysiphonia is a red alga, filamentous and usually well branched some plants reaching a length of about 30 cm. They are attached by rhizoids or haptera [3] to a rocky surface or other alga. The thallus (tissue) consists of fine branched filaments each with a central axial filament supporting pericentral cells. The number of these pericentral cells, 4–24, is used in identification. [5][6][7] Polysiphonia elongata [8] shows a central axial cell with 4 periaxial cells with cortical cells growing over the outside on the older fronds. [1] Its cuticle contains bromine.[9]
Features used in identification include the number of pericentral cells, the cortication of main branches, constriction of young branches at their base, whether the branching dichotomous or spiral, and the width and length of thalli.
Distribution and ecology
Species have been recorded from Europe, Australia and New Zealand, North America and South America, islands in the Pacific Ocean, South Africa, southwest Asia, Japan, Greenland and Antarctica. [2]
The species are entirely marine, found growing on rock, other algae, mussels or limpets and artificial substrata etc. from mid-littoral to at least 27 m depth. Many species are abundant in rock pools. [1] Polysiphonia lanosa is commonly found growing on Ascophyllum nodosum. [10]
Life cycle
The life-cycle of the red algae has three stages (triphasic). In Polysiphonia it consists of a sequence of a gametangial, carposporangial and tetrasporangial phases. [11] Male (haploid) plants (the male gametophytes) produce spermatia and the female plants (the female gametophytes) produce the carpogonium (the haploid carpogonium) which remains attached to the parent female plant. After fertilization the diploid nucleus migrates and fuses with an auxiliary cell. A complex series of fusions and developments follow as the diploid zygote develops to become the carposporophyte, this is a separate phase of the life-cycle and is entirely parasitic on the female, it is surrounded by the haploid pericarp of the parent female plant. The diploid carpospores produced in the carposporangium when released are non-motile, they settle and grow to form filamentous diploid plants similar to the gametophyte. This diploid plant is the tetrasporophyte which when adult produced spores in fours after meiosis. These spores settle and grow to become the male and female plants thus completing the cycle. [5][12]
Species
British Isles.
Polysiphonia atlantica Kapraun & J.Norris. [1]
Species
The species currently recognized are:
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Notes
- ^ Recorded common names are olann dhearg, craonach, cúnach triosgar, cluaisíní, mileara, millreacha, salata tou yialou (σαλάτα του γιαλού) and lobster horns.
References
- ^ a b c d Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1: Rhodophyta. HMSO, London. ISBN 0-11-310045-0. OCLC 28928653.
- ^ a b c Norris, R.E. & Guiry, M.D. (2006-03-15). "Polysiphonia Greville 1823: pl. 90". AlgaeBase. http://www.algaebase.org/generadetail.lasso?genus_id=37461.
- ^ a b Stegenga, H., Bolton,J.J. & Anderson,R.J. (1997). Seaweeds of the South African West Coast. Bolus Herbarium Number 18.
- ^ Abbott, I.A. & Hollenberg,G.J. (1976). Marine Algae of California. Stanford University Press, California. ISBN 0-8047-0867-3. OCLC 180623827.
- ^ a b van den Hoek, C., Mann,D.G. & Jahns,M.H. (1995). Algae: An Introduction to Phycology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-30419-9. OCLC 28182088.
- ^ Parmentier,Jan (1999). "Polysiphonia, a red alga". Micscape Magazine. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar99/red.html.
- ^ von Sengbusch,Peter (2003-07-31). "Polysiphonia nigrescens". Botanik online. University of Hamburg. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/d44/polysiph.htm.
- ^ Guiry,M.D. (2004-09-23). "Polysiphonia echinata Harvey". AlgaeBase. http://www.algaebase.org/speciesdetail.lasso?species_id=173&sk=40&from=results.
- ^ Pedersén, M. E. E.; Roomans, G. M.; Hofsten, A. V. (1981). "Bromine in the Cuticle of Polysiphonia Nigrescens: Localization and Content". Journal of Phycology 17: 105–108. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1981.00105.x.
- ^ "Polysiphonia lanosa". Marine Life Information Network for Britain & Ireland. http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Polysiphonialanosa.htm.
- ^ Dixon,P.D. (1973). Biology of Rhodophyta. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-05-002485-X. OCLC 944032.
- ^ Mondragon, J. & Mondragon, J. (2003). Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. Sea Challengers, California. ISBN 0-930118-29-4. OCLC 50912900.
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