News tagged with eukaryotic algae
Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis
The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...
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Scientists find 'man's remotest relative' in lake sludge
After two decades of examining a microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway, scientists on Thursday declared it to be one of the world's oldest living organisms and man's remotest relative.
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Not by asteroid alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous mass extinction
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, causing severe but selective extinction. While that is widely accepted, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Microbe metabolism: For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy
Every living organism balances a budget of sorts — by allocating energy to various parts of its body to fuel essential life processes. Throughout its lifetime, an organism may rebalance this budget to ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Last universal common ancestor more complex than previously thought
Scientists call it LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, but they don't know much about this great-grandparent of all living things. Many believe LUCA was little more than a crude assemblage of molecular parts, a chemical ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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How many species on Earth? 8.7 million
Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million).
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Breathing new life into Earth: New research shows evidence of early oxygen on our planet
Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare — if not complet ...
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Aug 16, 2011 |
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Fossils from the Yukon reveal protective plates for microscopic organisms
(PhysOrg.com) -- In summer 2007, two geologists armed with rock hammers and a shotgun hiked through the Yukon, looking for fossils. For two weeks, Phoebe Cohen, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Earth, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Loch fossils show life harnessed sun and sex early on
Remote lochs along the west coast of Scotland are turning up new evidence about the origins of life on land.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Algae that live inside the cells of salamanders are the first known vertebrate endosymbionts
A species of algae long known to associate with spotted salamanders has been discovered to live inside the cells of developing embryos, say scientists from the U.S. and Canada, who report their findings in ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Study analyzes role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes
An Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases and are important ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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