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The unilocular reproductive stages of the brown algaEctocarpus have been examined with the electron microscope. One observation in particular, which is believed to have been made for the first time in Phaeophycean studies, is that the zoospore derived from unilocular sporangia possesses a microanatomy considerably different from that of spores formed by plurilocular sporangia. It is suggested that this difference may have an evolutionary significance and may lead to a better understanding of the life cycle ofEctocarpus.
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Baker, J.R.J., Evans, L.V. The ship-fouling algaEctocarpus . Protoplasma 77, 181–189 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276756
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