Dinoflagellates play crucial roles in aquatic ... the researchers gained deeper insights by examining laboratory-induced cysts in a representative cyst-producing dinoflagellate species.

“You could see the front of the bloom right along the coast”—a reddish cloud of millions of microscopic organisms called dinoflagellates floating in the water. “The striking part was all the little ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Rather than the flexible, X-shaped chromosomes familiar to humans, dinoflagellates organize their genetic material in orderly blocks along rigid, ...