African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12504

Review

Some progress in sexual reproduction and sex determination of economic algae

  Chen Peng1, 4, Chen Qi-Jie2, Chu Li-Ye3 and Shao Hong-Bo1,3*      
  1The CAS/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yantai 264003, China. 2College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China. 3Institute of Life Sciences, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), Qingdao 266042, China. 4The Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 28 February 2012
  •  Published: 13 March 2012

Abstract

 

With the rapid development of marine industry, algae as an important economic plant as well as an extremely promising energy source, is now attracting more and more attention. As a result of this, elucidating the basic physiological mechanisms of algae becomes even more urgent. Of all the fields, sexual reproduction and sex determination are basic and essential aspects. In this review, we summarized the advances of sex in several typical algae which are of great economic importance and often used as model organism for basic research.

 

Key words: Sexual reproduction, sex determination, sex-related genes, algae, life cycle.

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