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.

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

Researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen have investigated the movement patterns of unicellular, hydrogen-producing ...

A team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" has discovered a previously unknown rejuvenation mechanism in unicellular ... cycles. In plankton, algae divide ...