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.

Lessons from the pond: Clues from green algae on the origin of males and females Date: April 16, 2010 Source: Salk Institute Summary: A multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, may have finally ...

They found it in two green algae, in the unicellular Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as well as in the multicellular Volvox carteri. Function shown in oocytes and algae "For many years there has been ...

the Chlamydomonas MID gene was unable to substitute for Volvox MID. The discovery of a master regulatory gene for sexes and mating types in this group of green algae shows that these two forms of ...

But in certain colonies of green algae, flagella also boost nutrient ... But how did the volvocines jump from solo cells to Volvox, a colony of as many as 50,000 cells? It's a puzzler of a ...

Sometimes algae embryos look like mushrooms, and sometimes they look spherical. The act of shifting between these shapes helps them develop into their final form. Science have now for the first ...

A key finding was that the opposed mark and the earlier mark VOLVO were dissimilar conceptually, as the opposed mark gave rise to the meaning of “freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox”. Register ...

Sex change But the multicellular algae Volvox carteri evolved sexes from a more-primitive, single-celled ancestor, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, in just the past few hundred million years ...