to reveal how these creatures adapted their genome to coexist with algae. The findings, published in the journal Communications Biology, offer clues about how such evolution may have contributed ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Herron, M. D. & Michod, R. E. Evolution of complexity in the volvocine algae: Transitions in individuality through Darwin's eye. Evolution 62, 436–451 (2008). King, N. The unicellular ancestry ...

Genomic reduction and evolution of novel genetic membranes and protein-targeting machinery in eukaryote-eukaryote chimaeras (meta-algae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

The 1-billion-year-old impressions have features similar to modern algae and indicate that photosynthesizing plants evolved at least that long ago. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this ...

In photosynthesis, algae and plants take in sunlight to turn ... "Right from the start, we had this idea that this might be related to the evolution of photosynthesis and the ability to breathe ...

The research was published Monday in the Nature Ecology & EvolutionExternal link journal and provides an overview of the evolution of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae-like organisms) in ten peri ...