An international research team has made an unexpected discovery of a biased counting mechanism used by the single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas to control cell division. An international research ...

The latest in genome sequencing was published yesterday in Science. The organism in question, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, is a rather unassuming creature: a single-celled, soil-dwelling green alga. But ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it—until a pair of Virginia Tech researchers waded into the ...

Here, we are interested in how these organisms alter gene expression to support survivability of the cell and keep their photosynthetic mechanisms running over a time continuum of stress. Analyzing ...

The adhesion of Chlamydomonas, a unicellular alga, to surfaces is light-dependent. Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out photosynthesis. Some unicellular algae actually use light ...

Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

Chlamydomonas is a type of green algae that has extensive uses both as a model organism for research and as an educational tool in the classroom. The Chlamydomonas Resource Center, from the University ...

A team of biophysicists led by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bäumchen and Dr. Maike Lorenz has developed a detailed protocol for the reliable cultivation of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.