PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When single-celled organisms such as sperm crack their whip-like appendages called flagella, the beating sets them in motion. But in certain colonies of green algae, flagella also ...

Volvox barberi are multicellular green algae that form colonies of 10,000 to 50,000 cells. In an abstract presented at the March 2018 meeting of the American Physical Society by Ravi Balasubramanian, ...

Ancestors of the alga Volvox made the transition from the solitary life of a single-celled organism to that of a multicellular colony much earlier than previously thought, according to new research.

Some algae have been hanging together rather than going it alone much longer than previously thought, according to new research. Ancestors of Volvox algae made the transition from being a ...

OOSPORES OF “VoLVOX MINOR.”—Dr. Kirchner, in the recent part of Cohn's “Beiträge zur Biologic der Pflanzen,” describes the germination of the oospores, and in this supplements the important ...

Morphogenetic mutants of the colonial green alga, Volvox carteri f. nagariensis, were induced by chemical mutagenesis. The 68 independent mutants are classified into 12 readily identifiable phenotypes ...