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Red Algal Defenses in the Genomics Age

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Red Algae in the Genomic Age

Part of the book series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology ((COLE,volume 13))

Abstract

Marine red algae are important organisms from both an ecological and an economical point of view. In most subtidal or intertidal habitats, their extremely high diversity contributes to the functioning of the ecosystems, and in coral reef ecosystems, coralline red algae play a major role in reef building. Red algae have also provided the resources to establish a fruitful aquaculture in Far East Asia, first in Japan with the development of nori cultivation since the eighteenth century and most recently in the Philippines, Indonesia and East Africa, with the farming of carrageenophytes Eucheuma and Kappaphycus) promoted by Maxwell Doty during the 1970s (Ask and Azanza, 2002).

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Weinberger, F., Potin, P. (2010). Red Algal Defenses in the Genomics Age. In: Seckbach, J., Chapman, D. (eds) Red Algae in the Genomic Age. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3795-4_25

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