Organellogenesis, where an endosymbiont is transformed into an organelle within the host, is not well understood. In a recent study, researchers identified two novel dinoflagellates containing relic ...

A singular scene from last year’s red tide event in the Gulf of Mexico sticks in the memory of phytoplankton ecologist Vincent Lovko. “I got to go up in a helicopter with a news crew,” Lovko says.

Scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has evolved over millions of years. The effort has uncovered for the first ...

HOUSTON – (Sept. 22, 2021) – A little more sexy time for symbionts could help coral reefs survive the trials of climate change. And that, in turn, could help us all. Researchers at Rice University and ...

A major red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California in the spring of 2020, resulting in dazzling displays of bioluminescence along the coast. The spectacle was caused by exceedingly high ...

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...

Tiny pets are trendy, but there’s a limit to how small you can breed a horse, dog, or pig. If you want to stay ahead of the curve, you need to think smaller — way smaller. Microscopic pets are the ...

The relationships among cellular nutrient status, environmental conditions (temperature and nutrient availability), and cyst production were studied in batch cultures of three cold-water ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2012), pp. 58-64 (7 pages) We monitored the kinetics of grazer-induced responses in the marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense. Chemical cues from each ...