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Phenotypic variation in sexually and asexually recruited individuals of the Baltic Sea endemic macroalga Fucus radicans: in the field and after growth in a common-garden.
BMC ecology - 22 Feb 2012
Johannesson Kerstin, Forslund Helena, Capetillo Nastassja Astrand, Kautsky Lena, Johansson Daniel, Pereyra Ricardo T, Råberg Sonja
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BACKGROUND: Most species of brown macroalgae recruit exclusively sexually. However, Fucus radicans, a dominant species in the northern Baltic Sea, recruits new attached thalli both sexually and asexually. The level of asexual recruitment varies among populations from complete sexual recruitment to almost (> 90%) monoclonal populations. If phenotypic traits have substantial inherited variation, low levels of...
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