Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

Researchers hoped that elucidating the mechanism underlying stress-induced lipid production could help them engineer algae that made ample amounts of lipids even when they were not stressed. The ...

Blue-green algae are different from true algae. True algae are eukaryotes—that is, their cells have nuclei. They obtain their ...

Brown algae are photosynthetic, multicellular, marine eukaryotes. These organisms have independently evolved several important biological characteristics, such as multicellularity, complex life ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae. Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids ...

These common, globally distributed microbes are barely bigger than bacteria, yet they’re members of the same domain as animals, fungi, and plants, and everything from what they eat to where they fit ...

Shown are representatives of all major lineages of eukaryotic organisms ... such as the chlorophycean algae (of which the volvocine algae are members) also include several colonial species.