Silvetia is a genus of
brown algae, commonly known as rockweed, found in the
intertidal zone of rocky seashores of the
Pacific Ocean. These were originally classified as members of the genus Pelvetia. In 1999, Silvetia sp. was created as a separate species from Pelvetia canaliculata due to differences of
oogonium structure and of nucleic acid sequences of the rDNA.[1] It was renamed in honor of
Paul Silva, Curator of Algae at the Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley.[1] There are three species and one subspecies.
Taxonomy
This list of species of Silvetia contains those considered to belong to this genus as of 2013:
Anastyuk, Stanislav D; Shevchenko, Natalia M; Dmitrenok, Pavel S; Zvyagintseva, Tatyana N (Sep 1, 2012). "Structural similarities of fucoidans from brown algae Silvetia babingtonii and Fucus evanescens, determined by tandem MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry". Carbohydrate Research. 358: 78–81.
doi:
10.1016/j.carres.2012.06.015.
PMID22824505.
Bisgrove, S. R.; Kropf, D. L. (22 June 2004). "Cytokinesis in brown algae: studies of asymmetric division in fucoid zygotes". Protoplasma. 223 (2–4): 163–174.
doi:
10.1007/s00709-004-0038-6.
PMID15221521.
Nagasato, Chikako; Kajimura, Naoko; Terauchi, Makoto; Mineyuki, Yoshinobu; Motomura, Taizo (November 2014). "Electron tomographic analysis of cytokinesis in the brown alga Silvetia babingtonii (Fucales, Phaeophyceae)". Protoplasma. 251 (6): 1347–1357.
doi:
10.1007/s00709-014-0635-y.
PMID24671646.
Silva, Paul C; Pedroche, Francisco F; Chacana, Max E; Aguilar-Roxas, Raul; Raum, Jennifer (March 2004). "Geographic correlation of morphological and molecular variation in Silvetia compressa (Fucaceae, Fucales, Phaeophyceae)". Phycologia. 43 (2): 204–214.
doi:
10.2216/i0031-8884-43-2-204.1.
Wang, Gaoge; Wei, Xiaojiao; Shuai, Limei (August 2014). "Early Development of Silvetia babingtonii (Fucales, Phaeophyceae)". Journal of Ocean University of China. 13 (4): 677–682.
doi:
10.1007/s11802-014-2220-6.
Whitaker, Stephen G.; Smith, Jayson R.; Murray, Steven N. (September 2010). "Reestablishment of the Southern California Rocky Intertidal Brown Alga, Silvetia compressa: An Experimental Investigation of Techniques and Abiotic and Biotic Factors That Affect Restoration Success". Restoration Ecology. 18 (Supplement s1): 18–26.
doi:
10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00717.x.