Abstract

Many marine biologists have kept an eye on oil pollution in the marine environment since the ‘Torrey Canyon’ disaster in 1967. The oil spilt on the sea is globally the most widespread pollutant in our time and its effects on marine organisms are diverse, most of them even now remaining veiled. The present paper describes the inhibition of sporal phototaxis, and the depression of zygotic survival and early development in Ulva pertusa by an aqueous extract of an oil and by aqueous solutions of individual hydrocarbons.

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