With such a variety to puzzle games over the years, it’s always fun and interesting to find something that’s new. Enter Volvox, a curious hand-drawn game about guiding three-sided “Trimoebas” across ...

How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question. Before ...

(A) The function of glsA appears to have been co-opted without change from an unknown function in the unicellular ancestor of Volvox, so that it is now part of a pathway (shaded green) that is ...

Volvox aka Ariana Paoletti is a São Paolo-born, New York City-based DJ, promoter, and one of the key figures of NYC's queer techno party Unter. Raised on rave culture during her formative years in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The membrane structural lipids of somatic cells and gonidia isolated from Volvox carteri f. nagariensis spheroids have been characterized. The principal polar lipid components of both cell types are ...

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 ...

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