Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Kobe University discovered populations of female brown algae that reproduce from unfertilized gametes and thrive without males. In a study ...

Scientists have discovered a sexual reproduction process in microalgae that helps them better understand algae and plant evolution. Their discovery could lead to new industrial applications for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Toxic algae -- already a summer plague of Lake Erie and hundreds of shallow inland lakes -- might be even more dangerous than first believed. A team of biologists and ...

Introduction to the algae -- Organization of the algal organisms -- Methods of study and nutrition of algae -- Reproduction in algae -- Classification of algae -- Illustrative algal organisms -- ...

The familiar notion of the separate male and female sexes exhibited by animal and plant species is based in part on the anatomically and genetically distinct gametes, sperm and egg, produced by ...