Publications

Pearson GA, Hoarau G, Lago-Leston A, Coyer JA, Kube M, Henckel K, Serrão EA, Corre E, Stam WT, Olsen JL (2009). An Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Analysis of the Intertidal Brown Seaweeds Fucus serratus (L.) and F. vesiculosus (L.) (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae) in Response to Abiotic Stressors. Marine Biotechnology, in press

Pearson GA, Lago-Leston A, Mota C. Frayed at the edges: Selective pressure and adaptive response to abiotic stressors are mismatched in low diversity edge populations. Journal of Ecology, 97, 450–462.

Pearson G, Lago-Leston A, Valente M, Serrão E (2006) Simple and rapid RNA extraction from freeze-dried tissue of brown algae and seagrasses. European Journal of Phycology, 41(1): 97 – 104

Varela-Álvarez E.Andreakis N, Lago-Lestón A, Pearson GA, Serrao EA, Procaccini G, Duarte CM, Marba N. (2006) Genomic DNA isolation in green and brown algae (Caulerpales and Fucales) for microsatellite library construction. Journal of Phycology. (42) 3: 741-745

Fonseca VG, Lago-Lestón A, Laizé V, Cancela ML (2005). Rapid Identification Of Differentially Expressed Genes By In Situ Screening Of Bacteria. Molecular Biotechnology 30(2):163-166.

Recent comunications

Comparative gene expression during desiccation stress in populations of an intertidal brown alga (2005)M.A. Lago-Lestón, E. A. Serrão Lena Kautsky ,G. A. Pearson. Oral presentation at the 8th International Phycological Congress. August 13-19, Durban, South Africa

Desiccation-Responsive Gene Expression In An Intertidal Brown Alga (Heterokontophyta): -Population-Level Expression Patterns And Sequence Variation (2005)A. Lago-Leston, E. Serrao, G. Pearson. Poster presentation. XVII International Botanical Congress. July 17 – 23, Vienna, Austria.

Comparative Gene Expression During Stress In Co-Existing, Ecologically Similar Algal Species. (2004) Lago-Lestón M.A., Serrão E.A., Pearson G.A. Poster presentation at the Congresso Nacional de Bioquímica. December, 2-4, Vilamoura, Portugal.

The molecular basis for differential stress-tolerance in co-existing, ecologically similar algal species. M.A. Lago-Lestón , E. A. Serrão and G. A. Pearson . Oral presentation in “XVIII International Seaweed Symposium”. June 20-25, 2004, Bergen , Norway

Differential gene expression and population divergence in stress responses of intertidal brown seaweeds. M.A. Lago-Lestón, E. Serrão, and G: Pearson . Oral presentation in "The 33rd Annual Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting”. March 25-28, 2004, Mobile , Alabama , USA

Suppression-subtractive hybridization and two-step differential screening to study stress responses and local adaptation of intertidal brown seaweed populations. M.A. Lago-Lestón, O. Martínez de Ilarduya, E. A. Serrão, and G. A. Pearson. Oral presentation in “Third European Phycologycal Congress”. July 21-26, 2003. Belfast , UK .

Suppression-subtractive hybridization and two-step differential screening to study population differentiation in the desiccation response of intertidial brown seaweeds. M. A. Lago-Leston , E. A. Serrao, G. A. Pearson. Poster presentation at the “VII International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology”. June 23-28, 2003. Barcelona , Spain