Harinder P.S. Makkar, Gilles Tran, Valérie Heuzé, Sylvie Giger-Reverdin, Michel Lessire, François Lebas, Philippe Ankers
Animal Feed Science and Technology, Vol. 212,
Published online: September 22, 2015
XAlgae are a heterogeneous group of plants with a complex and often controversial taxonomy. There are two main types of algae: macroalgae (seaweeds), which occupy the littoral zone and can be of very large size; and microalgae, the small-sized algae, which are found in benthic and littoral habitats as well as throughout the ocean waters as phytoplankton (Hasan and Chakrabarti, 2009; El Gamal, 2012). There are about 10,000 species of seaweeds (Guiry, 2014), but only a few of them are of interest for animal feeding.
