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. Before ...

Lipid droplets (LDs) are intracellular organelles found in a wide range of organisms and play important roles in stress tolerance. During nitrogen (N) starvation, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii stores ...

The latest in genome sequencing was published yesterday in Science. The organism in question, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, is a rather unassuming creature: a single-celled, soil-dwelling green alga. But ...

An international research team has made an unexpected discovery of a biased counting mechanism used by the single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas to control cell division. An international research ...

Many proteins of the photosynthesis complexes are encoded by the genome of the chloroplast and synthesized by bacterium-like ribosomes within this organelle. To determine where proteins are ...

Chlamydomonas is a type of green algae that has extensive uses both as a model organism for research and as an educational tool in the classroom. The Chlamydomonas Resource Center, from the University ...

The adhesion of Chlamydomonas, a unicellular alga, to surfaces is light-dependent. Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out photosynthesis. Some unicellular algae actually use light ...

Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

In everyday life, green algae tend to be bad news. In damp weather, microscopic unicellular algae form a slimy layer on garden furniture and house walls; during warm summers, they form a scum on the ...

Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out photosynthesis. Some unicellular algae actually use light to switch the adhesion of their flagella to surfaces on and off - a phenomenon ...