Sofie D'hondt

TL;DR: The results indicate that speciation in the marine environment may occur at spatial scales smaller than 100 km, comparable with some terrestrial systems, and the finding of fine-scale endemism has important consequences for marine conservation and management.

TL;DR: The sequenced genome of Ulva mutabilis, a ubiquitous and iconic representative of the Ulvophyceae or green seaweeds, offers new opportunities to understand coastal and marine ecosystems and the fundamental evolution of the green lineage.

TL;DR: It is concluded that AXOS improves sturgeon health through prebiotic action, but the induced effects depend on the specific structure of AXOS.

TL;DR: This study seeks to test hypotheses about the monophyly of three traditionally defined and well-studied classes of green algal phylum Chlorophyta by combining high throughput sequencing data from the chloroplast genome with increased taxon sampling, and suggests that while many of the deep relationships are still problematic to resolve, the classes Trebouxiophyceae and Ulvophycee are likely not monophyletic as currently defined.

TL;DR: A clear successional pattern in the epiphytic bacteria of C. compressa over time is observed, suggesting the hypothesis of a possible, but still unexplored, role of the microbial communities in contributing to the extensive ongoing declines of populations of Cystoseira spp.