Published on: 2025-06-26 01:00:46
Researchers previously believed that a small, bushy seaweed in the Baltic Sea belonged to a species called narrow wrack. New research reveals they’re actually individuals within a giant seaweed clone—perhaps the largest clone known to science. In a study published February 17 in the journal Molecular Ecology, University of Gothenburg researchers disproved the previous assumption that 310 miles (500 kilometers) of algae in the Baltic Sea were narrow wrack seaweed. Genetic analyses revealed that
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