Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae. They have shown that a single ARGONAUTE (AGO) protein ...

Scientists have discovered a sexual reproduction process in microalgae that helps them better understand algae and plant evolution. Their discovery could lead to new industrial applications for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Toxic algae -- already a summer plague of Lake Erie and hundreds of shallow inland lakes -- might be even more dangerous than first believed. A team of biologists and ...

The familiar notion of the separate male and female sexes exhibited by animal and plant species is based in part on the anatomically and genetically distinct gametes, sperm and egg, produced by ...

Introduction to the algae -- Organization of the algal organisms -- Methods of study and nutrition of algae -- Reproduction in algae -- Classification of algae -- Illustrative algal organisms -- ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.