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Ectocarpus
E. siliculosus, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Ectocarpales
Family: Ectocarpaceae
Genus: Ectocarpus
Lyngbye 1819

Ectocarpus is a genus of filamentous brown alga that is a model organism for the genomics of multicellularity.[1] Among possible model organisms in the brown algae, Ectocarpus was selected for the relatively small size of its mature thallus and the speed with which it completes its life cycle.[2][3] The type species for the genus is Ectocarpus siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngbye.[4]

List of species

Some currently accepted species of Ectocarpus include:

References

  1. ^ Cock, J.M.; et al. (2010). "The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae". Nature. 465: 617–621. doi:10.1038/nature09016.
  2. ^ Peters, A.F.; Marie, D.; Scornet, D.; Kloareg, B.; Cock, J.M. (2004). "Proposal of Ectocarpus siliculosus (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) as a model organism for brown algal genetics and genomics". Journal of Phycolology. 40: 1079–1088.
  3. ^ Dieter G. Müller, Markus Kapp, Rolf Knippers, Viruses in Marine Brown Algae, In: Karl Maramorosch, Frederick A. Murphy and Aaron J. Shatkin, Editor(s), Advances in Virus Research, Academic Press, 1998, Volume 50, Pages 49-67, ISSN 0065-3527, ISBN 9780120398508, doi:10.1016/S0065-3527(08)60805-2.
  4. ^ AlgaeBase

Further reading

Ahmed, Sophia; Cock, J. Mark; Pessia, Eugenie (8 September 2014). "A Haploid System of Sex Determination in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp". Current Biology. 24 (17): 1945–1957. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.042. PMID 25176635.

Prigent, Sylvian (10 October 2014). "The genome-scale metabolic network of Ectocarpus siliculosus (EctoGEM): a resource to study brown algal physiology and beyond". Plant Journal. 80 (2): 367–381. doi:10.1111/tpj.12627. PMID 25065645.

The life history is an isomorphic to slightly heteromorphic alternation of generations, but asexual strains also exist.

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