A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including animals, plants, fungi, and algae. This evolutionary leap of going from one to many requires organisms to ...

Evolutionary Journey: The Ancient Roots of Nitrogen Fixation in Eukaryotic Algae Proteins destined for the mitochondria or chloroplasts, or for the chromatophore of the amoeba, Paulinella ...

Research reported in Science has now shown that a eukaryotic algae carries an organelle capable of fixing nitrogen, changing what we thought about organisms that can perform this conversion. The ...

Since eukaryotic algae (Archaeplastids) arose after the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA), the discovery of Qingshania, if truly algal in nature, further supports the early appearance of LECA ...

The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology publishes original research on protists, including lower algae and fungi. Articles are published covering all aspects of these organisms, including their ...

Plants have long been known to release chemicals to respond to stress and relay information to their neighbors. A team of ...

In recent years, Precambrian lifeforms have generated an ever-increasing interest because they revealed a rich eukaryotic diversity prior to the Cambrian explosion of modern animals.

This is the fourth consecutive year a lethal algae bloom has occurred along the Southern California coast, fueled by an upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean. Research teams are ...