Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Dr Yacine Badis and Dr Claire Gachon in the frame of the GlobalSeaweed project thanks to the NERC IOF Pump-priming + scheme (NE/L013223/1).

Many thanks to Ronald Macintyre for insightful comments, constructive criticism and constant assistance in the writing process and design of the learning journey.

Other contributors include Critical Friends (Rafael Loueiro and Andrea Garvetto) who carefully revised final course draft, and Noreen Hiegle and Myriam Bernard for sharing their PhD presentations.

Some pictures in this course were kindly provided by:

Pr Inga Kjersti Sjøtun - healthy Ulva picture, and

David Fenwick – Gracilaria gracilis picture

Pr W.J Fry – Phyophthora infestans micrograph of sporangia

Dr Pieter Van West – Pythium oligandrum mycoparasitism picture

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Images

Figure 1 © SAMS/Yacine Badis

Figure 2 © Claire Gachon

Figure 3 From: Hani M. A. Abdelzaher, M. A. Shoulkamy and M. M. Yase (2004) Kinds, Abundance and Pathogenicity of Pythium Species Isolated from Maize; © Yacine Badis; © William James Fry; Rasbak (2011) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Phytophthora_infestans_potato_%27Dor%C3%A9%27,_aardappelziekte_Dor%C3%A9.jpg [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Figure 4 Released into the Public Domain, August 2005. P. Alejandro Díaz and Ginny Velasquez, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:La-Jolla-Red-Tide.780.jpg

Figure 5 Smithsonian Institute.

Figure 6 © Claire Gachon

Figure 7 Kagami, M., Miki, T. and Takimoto, G. (2014) Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs. Front. Microbiol. 5:166. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00166 Copyright © 2014 Kagami, Miki and Takimoto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Figures 8, 9 and 10 Kim et.al (2014). Note this is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Figure 12 CC SA 3.0 Ronald Simbajonhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Ice-ice_disease_on_Kappaphycus.jpg

Figure 13 © Yacine Badis; CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) Hommersand, Max H. (2007); Permission received by David Fenwick

Figure 14 © Yacine Badis. Adapted with permission of Inga Kjersti Sjøtun Kjersti.Sjotun@uib.no. © SAMS Martina Strittmatter

Figure 15 © SAMS Martina Strittmatter

Figures 16 and 17 Letcher, P.M., Lopez, S., Schmieder, R., Lee, P.A., Behnke, C. (2013) ‘Characterization of Amoeboaphelidium protococcarum, an Algal Parasite New to the Cryptomycota Isolated from an Outdoor Algal Pond Used for the Production of Biofuel’, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 2, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056232. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Video 2 © SAMS

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