A multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, may have finally unlocked the secrets behind the evolution of different sexes. A team led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has ...

Throughout evolution, living things have repeatedly developed physically distinct sexes, but how does this actually happen? A discovery in the multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, has revealed ...

They say love teaches even asses to dance; well it seems the proverb holds true even for some microscopic organisms. Colonies of the common algae Volvox have been observed locked together in “waltz” ...

A tiny variety of algae may yield clues to how separate sexes evolved, showing how one single gene was involved in the origin of distinct female and male sexes, researchers say. That single gene in ...