Congratulations to Anastasia, Akira, Vivian, Martin, Elaine, Hugh, Takeaki and Hiroshi for the paper on Schizocladia ischiensis from a coralligenous community off the island of Rhodes! This alga, reported here only for the 2nd time ever in the world, belongs to a poorly-known sister group of the brown algae, the Schizocladiophyceae (Ochrophyta). The study is founded upon the NFSD expedition in October-November 2015, and would not have happened without Akira's skillful and tireless algal isolation work from the samples collected during this endeavor. Anastasia and Akira subsequently did DNA barcode sequencing of this and other isolates in our lab, which revealed the uniqueness of this material and enabled further studies.
The full article can be accessed here:
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/3/102
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| The site at 24 m depth where the sample was collected, which resulted in the 2nd ever finding of Schizocladia ischiensis |
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| The isolate of Schizocladia ischiensis from Rhodes, Greece |
