Seagrasses colonized the sea 1 on at least three independent occasions to form the basis
of one of the most productive and widespread coastal ecosystems on the planet 2 . Here we …

As the most widespread seagrass in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere, Zostera
marina provides a unique opportunity to investigate the extent to which the historical legacy …

The increasing use of molecular tools to study populations of clonal organisms leads us to
question whether the low polymorphism found in many studies reflects limited genetic …

Genetic diversity is one of three forms of biodiversity recognized by the IUCN as deserving
conservation along with species and ecosystems. Seagrasses provide all three levels in one. …

Scrippsiella trochoidea is a widely distributed neritic dinoflagellate that produces
calcareous resting cysts. We assessed the level of intraspecific diversity at the molecular, …

Aim The seagrass, Posidonia oceanica is a clonal angiosperm endemic to the Mediterranean
Sea. Previous studies have suggested that clonal growth is far greater than sexual …

Seagrasses are valuable sources of food and habitat for marine life and are one of Earth's
most efficient carbon sinks. However, they are facing a global decline due to ocean warming …

The study and characterization of natural systems involves the evaluation of their diversity
and the identification and definition of processes and fluxes operating at different temporal …

The genus Pseudo-nitzschia includes several species capable of producing domoic acid,
the causative agent of Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning. Some of these species have been …

Morphological investigations of motile cells and cysts of a small dinoflagellate (strain CCMP
2088) isolated from Canadian Arctic waters were carried out under both light and scanning …