La Jolla, CA-A multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, may have finally unlocked the secrets behind the evolution of different sexes. A team led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...

VIEWED from humanity's lofty heights, single-celled creatures are the scum of the earth. In reality, though, almost all living things are unicellular, and with good reason. Multicellularity requires ...

They say love teaches even asses to dance; well it seems the proverb holds true even for some microscopic organisms. Colonies of the common algae Volvox have been observed locked together in “waltz” ...

Heat turns colonial algae into hotties. When algae find themselves in hot water, the normally asexual organisms get all stressed out and turn sexual. Blame it on the free radicals, says a team of ...