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 ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

WASHINGTON — An all-female freshwater fish species called the Amazon molly that inhabits rivers and creeks along the Texas-Mexico border is living proof that sexual reproduction may be vastly ...

The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

Occupying virtually every water-containing environment, essential to marine food chains, and implicated in the spread of toxic blooms, diatoms—algae with a siliceous cell wall—are of intense practical ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Jan., 1964), pp. 72-78 (7 pages) Investigations of a nonfilamentous fungus (Schizochytrium aggregatum gen. et sp. nov.) reveal that it proliferates ...

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 ...

New research shows a species of diatom, a single-celled algae, thought to be asexual does reproduce sexually, and scientists learned it's a common compound -- ammonium -- that puts the ubiquitous ...

THE fungus Saprolegnia is chosen as an example among the lower plants. This fungus lives on dead insects, and shows three distinct stages of its development:—(1) vegetative growth of the mycelium; (2) ...