In the battle against climate change, a startup company is using a new technology to mass-produce seaweed that can help ...
This type of nuisance alga nicknamed “rock snot” is increasingly turning up in Michigan’s cold-water streams. When conditions ...
“Very rare” could actually be considered an understatement. The first time this happened – as far as we know – it gave rise ...
At the same time, Kyoko Hagino, a paleontologist at Kochi University in Japan, was painstakingly trying to culture a marine alga. It turned out to be the host organism for UCYN-A. It took her over 300 ...
Unless otherwise noted, "the alga" and "C. taxifolia" refer to the aquarium strain. A clone of Caulerpa taxifolia that is resistant to cold is observed in the tropical aquarium at the Wilhelmina ...
Didymo is a single-cell alga that thrives in cold, low-nutrient streams. The cells can form extensive stalks, or blooms, that create dense matts that cover the stream bed. The matts take up habitat ...
Reaching diameters of up to 9 centimeters (3.5 inches), it can’t quite compete with C. taxifolia for world’s largest ...
Michigan environmental officials urge anglers and paddlers to decontaminate watercraft and gear after invasive didymo, "rock snot," found in Au Sable River.
Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is ...
Sugarcane biodiversity disappeared as big plantations dominated the sugar trade in Hawaii, but now native varieties are ...
Caulerpa taxifolia, the "killer alga," is just one dramatic example of an accelerating phenomenon—the homogenization of the biosphere by species introduced to every continent and island.