Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it -- until researchers not only found a virus in the alga but ...

Researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host genome and later ...

Either the algal sample had somehow gotten contaminated by a virus—a common issue in the field—or the finding was accurate, which would mean that the algae and the virus had swapped genetic material ...

This discovery shines a light on the environmental factors that cause red tide blooms to grow and marks an important step towards better understanding the virus. “We know that viruses play an ...

"We know that viruses play an important role in the dynamics of harmful algal blooms, but we haven't known what viruses might be associated with Karenia brevis blooms," said Jean Lim, the study's ...