Desalination brines from direct seawater intake that get discharged to coastal areas may produce stress responses on benthic marine communities, mostly due its excess salinity, and especially sessile organisms; in this context, macroalgae have been understudied desalination ecotoxicological investigations. In study, we assessed the short- long-term cellular tolerance two brown species of genus ...

Fucoxanthin contents of four species of brown seaweeds (Dictyota indica, Padina tenuis, Colpomenia sinuosa and Iyengaria stellata) from intertidal zone of Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf were assessed in summer and winter of 2016. In addition, some physicochemical properties (pH, temperature, salinity and conductivity) of seawater were monitored on the same time. The antibacterial activity of algal ...

Taxonomic study of the genus Padina (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from the Persian Gulf coast was conducted based on morphology and molecular phylogenetic analyses using chloroplast encoded large subunit RuBisCo (rbcL) gene sequences. Detailed descriptions of each species found in this study are described. Several morphological characters, such as number of cell layers composing the thallus, pr...

Alginates are one of the most important compounds brown seaweeds. These employed in food area, because their rheological properties, such as viscosity, gelling, and stabilizing features dietary fiber source. In this study, five species dominant seaweeds were collected Red Sea (Padina boergesenii, Turbinaria triquetra, Hormophysa cuneiformis, Dictyota ciliolata, Sargassum aquifolium) so to chara...

Marine macroalgae are the ecological basis in most of marine environments. Light and space, added to nutrients rank among important elements influencing their distribution environment. Thus, this work aimed identify quantify current past literature on competitive interactions address main questions patterns consequences for community structure, as well compare capacity different macroalgal taxa...