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.

Spliceosome structures have been investigated extensively in the past decade, but most of the studies have been restricted to ...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular freshwater green alga that is amenable to genetic studies and can be grown in the laboratory. It has a chloroplast, two flagella and an eye spot and is ...