Ancient algal mixup sorted

Sequencing one of Carl Linnaeus's seaweeds shows modern samples aren't what we thought.

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Hayden, H. et al., Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera. Eur. J. Phycol. (August 2003), 38: 277 ? 294.

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Declan Butler
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Declan Butler is a senior staff reporter for Nature, and worked in the Queen's University Belfast phycology lab in 1989.

Butler, D. Ancient algal mixup sorted. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.396