Colonies of the common algae Volvox have been observed locked together in “waltz” and “minuet” in an attempt to boost chances of fertilization. That is according to a team of physicists from Tohoku ...

Janet approaches the problem of the ontogenesis of the Volvox blastea (ccenobium ... symbolically the type of generation and the mode of reproduction of the organism under study.

While unicellular organisms can also reproduce sexually ... In contrast, multicellular organisms, including Volvox, produce eggs and sperm-they are distinctly male and female.

51 of this work, although the author is evidently aware of the fact that in Volvox reproduction is effected by means of sexually produced oospores, as his account of that plant, a singularly ...

Ancestors of Volvox algae made the transition from being a single-celled organism to becoming a multicellular colony at least 200 million years ago, during the Triassic Period. At that time ...