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Fucus

a genus of algae, typically having greenish-brown slimy FRONDS (2), such as Fucus vesiculosus , the bladderwrack.
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Fine-scale genetic breaks driven by historical range dynamics and ongoing density-barrier effects in the estuarine seaweed Fucus ceranoides L.
Les habitats du site de Gjoa Haven suivent un gradient de profondeur, avec Fucus sp.
Fucoidan is a polysaccharide purified from the brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus.
Evidence for methyl-jasmonate induced phlorotannin production in Fucus vesiculosus (Phaeophyceae).
11), but the present study suggests this effect to be an indirect one, because the mussels (located between dense macro-algae, Fucus sp.) were never exposed to such high current speeds reported to affect the valve gape of mussels (see e.g., Newell et al.
Accordingly, the exponent a for Fucus alginates in the MHS equation is to some extent lower than for other brown algal alginates [9, 15].
Herbivore grazing increases polyphenolic defenses in an intertidal brown alga, Fucus distichus.
This seaweed is usually replaced or mixed with other related species such as Fucus sp.
The following taxa were considered as the key species (habitat-forming species) in the study area: Fucus vesiculosus, Furcellaria lumbricalis, Zostera marina, other higher plants (Stuckenia pectinata, Potamogeton spp., Ruppia sp., Zannichellia palustris, Myriophyllum spicatum, Ranunculus baudotii, etc.), charophytes, bivalves, and cirripeds (Mytilus trossulus, Dreissena polymorpha, Macoma balthica, Mya arenaria, and Amphibalanus improvisus).
SEBOCEA-Derived from two algae: a microalga, Tetraselmis chui and a brown seaweed, Fucus Spiralis.
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