But complex multicellular organisms have arisen just six times on the tree of life: plants, animals, two groups of fungi, and two groups of algae.

Multicellular marine algae offer clues to early animal evolution Their discovery lends credibility to scientists who believe the origins of multicellular organisms lie much earlier than previously ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized multicellular marine algae, or seaweed, dating back more than 555 million years, ranking among the oldest examples of multicellular life on Earth.

Identification of one of the first multicellular algae thanks to its chlorophyll fossilized for 1 billion years Date: January 11, 2022 Source: University of Liege Summary: Researchers have ...

Instead, the fossils may be multicellular algae, or even the embryos of ancient animals.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany, have discovered a conserved developmental pattern known as the hourglass model in brown algae, providing more evidence that the ...

But the multicellular algae Volvox carteri evolved sexes from a more-primitive, single-celled ancestor, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, in just the past few hundred million years, an evolutionary flash ...

By studying green algae in Swedish lakes, a research team, led by Lund University in Sweden, has succeeded in identifying which environmental conditions promote multicellularity. The results give ...

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They also provide information on how a key group of species – green algae that generate fuel for ecosystems – are able to reproduce and survive under different environmental conditions. The next time ...

Algae may provide researchers with information regarding the nature of gender for the first time. A single gene determines whether some modern multicellular algae organisms are male or female ...

Life How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints Single-celled organisms that cluster and cooperate provide tantalising insights into the origins of multicellularity ...