https://www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/team-morphogenesis-macroalgae-mma/ectocarpus-development

Ectocarpus development

Introduction: 
Ectocarpus body is divided in 2 main types of filaments: the prostrate crawling filaments and the up-right floating filaments. To understand how crawling filaments grow, we are studying 3 cellular processes: 1) tip growth, 2) cell differentiation (rounding) and 3) branching