Constraints on chemically mediated coevolution: multiple functions for seaweed secondary metabolites

Diterpene alcohols produced by the brown seaweed Dictyota menstrualis deter feeding by numerous species of abundant herbivores. Here we show that these same compounds also may prevent fouling organisms from colonizing the surface of this alga. In the field, Dictyota menstrualis plants were less freq...

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