Sunday, December 27, 2015

Fucus vesiculosus ecology



Phlorotannins in Fucus vesiculosus act as actinic defences adjoin the abyssal herbivorous snail Littorina littorea. The breed is abnormally accepted on cloistral shores from the boilerplate bank to lower intertidal levels.

It is attenuate on apparent shores area any specimens may be short, bantam and afterwards the air vesicles.

Nevertheless, galactolipids, rather than phlorotannins, act as herbivore deterrents in this breed adjoin the sea brat Arbacia punctulata. Methyl-jasmonate may abet the phlorotannins production. Fucophlorethol A is a blazon of phlorotannin begin in Fucus vesiculosus.

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