310-Mile Stretch of Seaweed May Be World’s Biggest Clone

The researchers believed that a small, sleeve of a shrub in the Baltic Sea, belonging to a narrow harsh. New research shows that the people in a giant seaweed clone are inside the largest clone known.

One learn The magazine published on February 17, Molecular Ecology, Gothenburg Researchers had a narrow strange seaweed in the Baltic Sea. Genetic analyzes, only a different kind of climate, at the same time, it was a giant clone with the effects of the others as the others as climate change.

A clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism resulting from asexual reproduction. In this case, researchers discovered that new cloned populations have come between 310 miles (more than 500 kilometers) and the northern part of the Baltic Sea) in the original female clenderwrack plant. Normally, the female bladderwrack seaweed crops male bladderwrack increases by sex fertilization with seaweeds.

“This clone consists of millions and is completely dominant in some areas, and in other areas, we have found several more large clones in the Baltic Sea,” Ricardo Pereyra, “Sea scientist,” Ricardo Pereyra, “Sea scientist, in a university statement. In fact, KlenderWrack Clone can be a common known clone.

BladderWrack forms up to 32 feet (10 meters) forests in the lower surface of the water. They make young fish, snails and crustaceans in the shelter, as well as larger fish, make them an important marine. However, clones generally do not contribute to genetic diversity that strengthens the types of people against threats.

“The Baltic Sea is hot and probably a period of fresh seawater. In new conditions, all species should try to be adapted to live.

In other words, genetically different people have a chance to eliminate a threat, because some members of this population are more likely to have resistant genes. On the contrary, if all persons share the genetics of the same diseases, the whole population can be erased. This principle belongs to extensive threats, and Meslendervrack remains to see how to manage the threats of climate change.

During the study, the team also discovered other small and bushy seaweed. It is closely related to BladderWrack, but it has an easier time to endure the other half, because it only has sexually.