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BOTANICA MARINA
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 143-152Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2010.018
Keywords
Atlantic Ocean; geographical distribution; Laurencia marilzae; rbcL; taxonomy
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [308426/2006-1, 301217/2007-6, 478941/2006-4]
- FAPESP
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Laurencia marilzae is recorded for the first time from the western Atlantic Ocean; it was found in Laje de Santos Marine State Park, Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil. The specimens were collected in the rocky subtidal zone from 7 to 15 m depth. The most distinctive characteristic of this species is the presence of corps en cerise in all cells of the thallus, including cortex, medulla, and trichoblasts. The phylogenetic position of the species was inferred by analysis of the chloroplast-encoded rbcL gene sequences from 43 taxa, using two other rhodomelacean taxa and two members of the Ceramiaceae as outgroups. Within the Laurencia assemblage, L. marilzae from Brazil and from the Canary Islands ( type locality) formed a distinctive lineage sister to all other Laurencia species analyzed. Male plants are described for the first time. This study expands the geographical distribution of L. marilzae to the western Atlantic Ocean.
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