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Pseudovivipary, a new form of asexual reproduction in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica

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dc.creator Ballesteros, Enric
dc.creator Cebrian, Emma
dc.creator García-Rubies, Antoni
dc.creator Alcoverro, Teresa
dc.creator Romero Martinengo, Javier
dc.creator Font, Xavier
dc.date 2008-02-19T15:40:45Z
dc.date 2008-02-19T15:40:45Z
dc.date 2005-05
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:13Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:13Z
dc.identifier Botanica Marina 48 (2005): 175–177.
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/BOT.2005.026
dc.identifier 0006-8055
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2993
dc.identifier 10.1515/BOT.2005.026
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2993
dc.description Short communication
dc.description The seagrass Posidonia oceanica is able to reproduce by asexual formation of plantlets directly in the inflorescence. Pseudoviviparous plantlets were observed during May 2004 in 26% of the inflorescences in a P. oceanica meadow off the island of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean Sea). We do not know how frequently pseudovivipary occurs in Posidonia oceanica, nor the mechanisms triggering it, but this strategy can contribute significantly to short-distance dispersal and meadow maintenance, which is especially relevant in a species whose meadows can persist for thousands of years and whose colonization of new space occurs very slowly.
dc.description This work was supported by the Fisheries Department (Direcció General de Pesca) of the Balearic Government.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Walter de Gruyter
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/226487
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Dispersal
dc.subject Posidonia
dc.subject Pseudovivipary
dc.subject Seagrass
dc.subject Reproduction
dc.title Pseudovivipary, a new form of asexual reproduction in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica
dc.type Artículo


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