REU/RUI:  Cytogenetic and Microspectrophotometric           Investigations of Multinucleate Marine Green Algae
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Working with talented undergraduates, Dr. Donald Kapraun of                the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will study several               groups of marine green algae, using modern methods of microscopy                including microspectrophotometric measures of DNA content.  The                 work focuses on basic patterns of chromosomal change that                       accompany speciation in three major groups of multinucleate green               algae.  Information will be obtained concerning: basic chromosome               number; symmetry of chromosome complements; euchromatin and                     heterochromatin content; nuclear DNA quantity; and guanosine-                   cytosine content in nuclear DNA.                                                     The objective of the research is to determine what                         chromosomal modifications correlate with species diversity in the               three groups of marine green algae.  In conjunction with                        morphological features and other evidence, such data should prove               useful in reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among these                 plants.  In addition, the study will determine whether marine                   multinucleate forms, including cellular, septate coenocytes and                 non-septate coenocytes, manifest particular and unique types of                 chromosomal transformations.
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