Sea lettuce, a fast-growing seaweed that spawns massive "green tides," is a prolific thief, according to research that for the first time sequenced the genome of a green seaweed. Ulva growing in the intertidal zone [Credit: Helena Abreu/AlgaPlus]An international team including Rutgers scientists found 13 cases where the Sea Lettuce Ulva mutabilis stole genes from bacteria. Remarkably, this ubiquitous seaweed expanded more than half of...

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