Ulva L. biodiversity in the central Mediterranean Sea: cryptic species and new records Author Bartolo, Angela G. School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB 24 3 UU, Scotland (United Kingdom) and Laboratory of Applied Phycology, Centre for Molecular Medicine & Biobanking, Fourth floor, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080 (Malta) angiebartolo @ gmail. com (corresponding author) Author Zammit, Gabrielle Laboratory of Applied Phycology, Centre for Molecular Medicine & Biobanking, Fourth floor, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080 (Malta) and Microbiology Lab, Department of Biology, Second floor, Biomedical Sciences Building, Faculty of Science, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080 (Malta) Author Küpper, Frithjof C. School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB 24 3 UU, Scotland (United Kingdom) and Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB 24 3 UE, Scotland (United Kingdom) * Both these authors have contributed equally to this study. text Cryptogamie, Algologie 2022 2022-12-14 20 14 215 225 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2022v43a14 journal article 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2022v43a14 1776-0992 7819486

TABLE 5. — Results of the BLAST searches.

Germling Species name		Biomarker	Length (bp)	%ID	Accession no. ID, locality and reference
G57	U. californica	tuf A	825	100	HQ610280, HQ610279 U. californica, Canada, Saunders & Kucera 2010
G74	U. torta	rbc L	783	100	HQ603673 U. torta, Canada, Saunders & Kucera 2010
G93	U. compressa	ITS	782	99	HM584738 U. compressa, China, Duan et al. 2012
G93	U. compressa	tuf A	828	100	MF614784 U. compressa, Tunisia, Miladi et al. 2018
				100	MG976856, MG976873 U. compressa, Israel, Krupnik et al. 2018
G93	U. compressa	rbc L	732	100	HQ603522 U. compressa, Canada, Saunders & Kucera 2010
G124	U. californica	ITS	750	99	MT887264 U. californica, United States,Melton & Lopez-Bautista 2021