Search Results - "Toth, Gunilla B"
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Ocean acidification decreases grazing pressure but alters morphological structure in a dominant coastal seaweed
Published in PloS one (28-01-2021)“…Ocean acidification driven by anthropogenic climate change is causing a global decrease in pH, which is projected to be 0.4 units lower in coastal shallow…”
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Acquired phototrophy through retention of functional chloroplasts increases growth efficiency of the sea slug Elysia viridis
Published in PloS one (01-04-2015)“…Photosynthesis is a fundamental process sustaining heterotrophic organisms at all trophic levels. Some mixotrophs can retain functional chloroplasts from food…”
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Sustainable Large-Scale Aquaculture of the Northern Hemisphere Sea Lettuce, Ulva fenestrata, in an Off-Shore Seafarm
Published in Journal of marine science and engineering (2021)“…The growing world population demands an increase in sustainable resources for biorefining. The opening of new farm grounds and the cultivation of extractive…”
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Complex Interactions of Temperature, Light and Tissue Damage on Seagrass Wasting Disease in Zostera marina
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (21-10-2020)“…The temperate seagrass species eelgrass Zostera marina can be infected by the wasting disease pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae, which is believed to have killed…”
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Natural populations of shipworm larvae are attracted to wood by waterborne chemical cues
Published in PloS one (13-05-2015)“…The life cycle of many sessile marine invertebrates includes a dispersive planktonic larval stage whose ability to find a suitable habitat in which to settle…”
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Individual specialization to non-optimal hosts in a polyphagous marine invertebrate herbivore
Published in PloS one (04-08-2014)“…Factors determining the degree of dietary generalism versus specialism are central in ecology. Species that are generalists at the population level may in fact…”
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Abundance and size distribution of the sacoglossan Elysia viridis on co-occurring algal hosts on the Swedish west coast
Published in PloS one (19-03-2014)“…Sacoglossans are specialized marine herbivores that tend to have a close evolutionary relationship with their macroalgal hosts, but the widely distributed…”
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Biochemical composition of red, green and brown seaweeds on the Swedish west coast
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-10-2020)“…Seaweed biomass has the potential to become an important raw material for bio-based production. The aim of this study was to screen the overall composition of…”
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Water-Borne Cues Induce Chemical Defense in a Marine Alga (Ascophyllum nodosum)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-12-2000)“…It is well known that herbivores can induce chemical defenses in terrestrial vascular plants, but few examples of inducible production of defense chemicals…”
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Production of protein extracts from Swedish red, green, and brown seaweeds, Porphyra umbilicalis Kützing, Ulva lactuca Linnaeus, and Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) J. V. Lamouroux using three different methods
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-12-2018)“…The demand for vegetable proteins increases globally and seaweeds are considered novel and promising protein sources. However, the tough polysaccharide-rich…”
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Ocean acidification reduces thallus strength in a non-calcifying foundation seaweed
Published in Current biology (25-09-2023)“…Climate change is causing unprecedented changes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems through the emission of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2)…”
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The unheeded existence of the tubular greens: molecular analyses reveal the distribution of a new Ulva species (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), Ulva capillata sp. nov. in the Atlantic-Baltic Sea transect
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-02-2023)“…The ubiquitous and species rich genus Ulva comprises entities of green macroalgae with variable morphologies. Ulva species are important from ecological and…”
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In vitro digestibility and Caco-2 cell bioavailability of sea lettuce (Ulva fenestrata) proteins extracted using pH-shift processing
Published in Food chemistry (15-09-2021)“…•We concentrated Ulva proteins 3.5-times using a scalable and food-grade process.•pH-shift process improved the protein degree of hydrolysis of Ulva.•Amino…”
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Effects of irradiance, temperature, nutrients, and pCO2 on the growth and biochemical composition of cultivated Ulva fenestrata
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-10-2020)“…Ulva fenestrata is an economically and ecologically important green algal species with a large potential in seaweed aquaculture due to its high productivity,…”
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Adherence of kelp (Saccharina latissima) gametophytes on ropes with different binder treatments and flow regimes
Published in Journal of applied phycology (01-02-2023)“…The cultivation of kelp typically involves two stages, where an indoor hatchery phase preceedes the grow-out phase at-sea. The in situ adhesion of microscopic…”
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Salinity and host drive Ulva‐associated bacterial communities across the Atlantic–Baltic Sea gradient
Published in Molecular ecology (01-12-2023)“…The green seaweed Ulva is a model system to study seaweed–bacteria interactions, but the impact of environmental drivers on the dynamics of these interactions…”
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Induced herbivore resistance in seaweeds: a meta-analysis
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-05-2007)“…1 Terrestrial plants can sense and respond to herbivory, which may lead to increased resistance towards further grazing if the responses have negative effects…”
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Seagrass wasting disease along a naturally occurring salinity gradient
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (04-04-2019)“…In the 1930s, outbreaks of the wasting disease pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae caused a severe reduction of the eelgrass Zostera marina meadows in the Atlantic…”
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Novel chemical weapon of an exotic macroalga inhibits recruitment of native competitors in the invaded range
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-01-2013)“…1. Allelopathy is an important non-resource interaction in terrestrial plant communities that may affect invasions by non-indigenous plants. The 'novel weapons…”
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Artificial wounding decreases plant biomass and shoot strength of the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae)
Published in Marine biology (01-04-2006)“…Brown seaweeds can serve as habitat and food for a number of mesoherbivore species, but the effect of mesoherbivore grazing on the fitness of individual…”
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