Brown algae (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Brown algae

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The brown algae Fucus vesiculosus grows on stones almost everywhere along the North Sea and Baltic Sea. For the study the researchers also examined fucoidan of these algae like those at the coast of Heligoland.

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/M. Schultz-Johansen

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