New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening ...

Researchers hoped that elucidating the mechanism underlying stress-induced lipid production could help them engineer algae that made ample amounts of lipids even when they were not stressed. The ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae. Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids ...

Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids—an organelle characteristic of all other algae. Christie ... to where ...

Shown are representatives of all major lineages of eukaryotic organisms ... such as the chlorophycean algae (of which the volvocine algae are members) also include several colonial species.

Eukaryotes on the other hand are often multicellular and have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, which help to organize and compartmentalize cellular functions. They include animals, plants, ...

The Algological Research Group, located in Viikki as well as Lahti campuses, focuses on eukaryotic photosynthetic and mixotrophic algae. The algae are both of marine (brackish) and freshwater origin, ...

Seaweeds or marine macroalgae are macroscopic multicellular eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms and are classified in the ...