Consortium across the Baltic and North Sea are pooling their resources to develop algae-based products using industrial waste ...

Exploring the evolutionary timeline, the unicellular last common ancestor shared between algae and animals did not possess the distinct sex chromosomes found in these two groups of organisms. The ...

How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.

This is a photo of a desmid, a unicellular charophyte green algae that has lost all traces of flagella in its life cycle. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

serial endosymbioses involving unicellular eukaryotes, not necessarily red algae (Archibald 2009; Bodyl, Stiller, & Mackiewicz 2009; Baurain et al. 2010). Experimental evidence for this hypothesis ...

Morphologically simpler brown algae like Ectocarpus and the gametophytes ... Instead, their development involves a smooth transition from unicellular to multicellular stages without distinct ...

From nori to kelp to spirulina, sea vegetables are having a moment. There’s a good reason for this. These greens are packed with nutrients, anti-oxidants, protein, and flavor. A staple of Japanese ...

Unicellular organisms ... of marine ecosystems and the global biogeochemical cycles. In plankton, algae divide at an enormous rate and contribute to global CO 2 fixation and oxygen production ...