As trillions of algal cells multiply, die and sink, their decomposing cells strip oxygen from the water and block sunlight, ...

Watermelon snow is a rich and complex microbiome, including many species of algae, fungi, bacteria, and a wide array of protists. Back in the lab we took two approaches to isolating the the snow algae ...

Ohta and his team conducted genetic analysis of NIES-2145 and uncovered a homolog of the SQD2 gene. This implied a common expression control system between algal species in response to nutrient stress ...

Reference Stefanie Böhmer, Christina Marx, Álvaro Gómez-Baraibar, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Dirk Tischler, Anja Hemschemeier, Thomas Happe: Evolutionary diverse Chlamydomonas reinhardtii old yellow enzymes ...

“Incorporation of Photosynthetically Active Algal Chloroplasts in Cultured Mammalian Cells Towards Photosynthesis in Animals,” by Ryota Aoki et al., in Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series ...