Oct 28, 2019 by News Staff

As part of the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes (1KP) Initiative, an international consortium of scientists has sequenced transcriptomes — the set...

Sep 24, 2019 by News Staff

A team of Australian scientists has successfully completed an integrated genomic characterization of a reef-building coral species called Porites lutea...

Jul 5, 2019 by News Staff

Free-floating mats of brown macroalgae called Sargassum in the center of the North Atlantic were first reported by Christopher Columbus in the 15th century...

Jul 17, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers, led by Kanazawa and Kobe Universities, Japan, and the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, Germany, has sequenced...

Aug 17, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

The rapid rise of marine planktonic algae 659-645 million years ago (Cryogenian period), between the Sturtian and Marinoan ‘snowball Earth’ glaciations,...

Nov 9, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Chimpanzees in Guinea are regularly using long and robust tools to fish for algae, reveals new research published this month in the American Journal of...

Sep 8, 2015 by News Staff

ESA’s Sentinel-2A satellite has captured detailed images of a phytoplankton bloom in the middle of the Baltic Sea on 7 August 2015. This particular bloom...

Jul 28, 2015 by News Staff

The light-sensing molecules that tell plants whether to germinate, when to flower and which direction to grow were inherited millions of years ago from...

Jul 17, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists at Oregon State University has developed a new variety of dulse seaweed (Palmaria mollis) that, when fried or smoked, tastes just...

Feb 27, 2015 by News Staff

Cyanobacteria – also known as blue-green algae – have proliferated much more rapidly than other algae in lakes across North America and Europe...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Biological Bulletin provides the first direct evidence that the chromosomes of a sea slug called the Eastern emerald elysia...