Fabio Nauer from Brazil is showing his experiment testing the "biological species concept" (BSC) in the red algae Hypnea species complex that occurs in a gradient habitat with different morphol. F1 from diff. crosses of diff. forms based on BSC they are from same species. #EPC7

V for sex chromosome. Really cool talk from Agnieszka Lipinska on evolution of UV chromosomes and sex determ. systems in Brown Algae. #EPC7 #brownalgae #algae #protist #evolution

For Prof. Battacharya the origin of Red Algae, is also an "abominable mistery", the expression that Darwin used while pondering on higher plants origins in his letters to Hooker. #evolution #EPC7 #protist #algae #redalgae

Really awesome and funny "flash talk" 3 min. presentations from PhD students here at Zagreb at the European Phycological Congress. Here is Jana, the "Iron Woman", talking about algae and iron cycle. #EPC7 #protists #algae

Now our former master student, @GeffroySolene will present her results of the "Effect of salinity and temperature stresses on DMSP and PTS content in Alexandrium". Curious to know more about her PhD project! #EPC7 #algae #protist

Intriguing talk by Yoav Avrahami on "Detection and characterization of mixotrophy in coccolithophores". Main points: they display ingestion of prey at low values, ingestion is not increase by add. prey, and phosphorus does not appear to be a limiting trigger #EPC7 #algae #protist