The radiation of life on Earth was accompanied by the diversification of multicellular body
plans in the eukaryotic kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Chromista. Branching forms …

The brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus has a haploid–diploid life cycle that involves an
alternation between two distinct generations, the sporophyte and the gametophyte. We …

Associated microbiota play crucial roles in health and disease of higher organisms. For
macroalgae, some associated bacteria exert beneficial effects on nutrition, morphogenesis …

The genus Ectocarpus (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) contains filamentous algae widely
distributed in marine and estuarine habitats of temperate regions in both hemispheres …

The evolutionary stability of haploid–diploid life cycles is still controversial. Mathematical
models indicate that niche differences between ploidy phases may be a necessary condition …

Colonizations of freshwater by marine species are rare events, and little information is
known about the underlying mechanisms. Brown algae are an independent lineage of …

To identify cryptic stages of marine brown macroalgae present in the “bank of microscopic
forms”, we incubated natural substrata of different geographical origins and isolated …

The brown algae are an interesting group of organisms from several points of view. They are
the dominant organisms in many coastal ecosystems, where they often form large …

Ectocarpus siliculosus has been proposed as a genetic and genomic model for the brown
algae and the 214 Mbp genome of this organism has been sequenced. The aim of this …

The coast along the temperate South East Pacific (SEP) presents a simple linear topography
with a north-south orientation spanning more than 4600 km. However, environmental …