Unicellular organisms ... our understanding of marine ecosystems and the global biogeochemical cycles. In plankton, algae divide at an enormous rate and contribute to global CO 2 fixation and ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to ...

Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and ... such as the ones that gave rise to plants and animals, occurred deep in the past, approaching a billion ...

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn ...

The closest algal relatives of land plants are the filamentous and unicellular conjugating algae, the zygnematophytes. This group of organisms has received major attention because when researchers ...