How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.

Scientists used Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a single-cell green algae capable of generating photoelectrons, for the system. To overcome the barrier of cell walls that photoelectrons cannot cross ...

Reported for the first time to the researchers' knowledge, the group found that the combination of the green algae ...

Mayfield fell for green algae in 1984. After finishing his doctorate ... Mayfield was looking for a simpler system when he heard about Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Known to aficionados as Chlamy ...

have discovered one of the routes of auxin production in algae, using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algae as a model. "The auxin production pathway we demonstrated here is very simple and very common.