News articles tagged with 'dinoflagellate'
'Little brown balls' tie malaria and algae to common ancestor: UBC research
— 2 Jun 2010 16:12 | HealthInconspicuous 'little brown balls' in the ocean have helped settle a long-standing debate about the origin of malaria and the algae responsible for toxic red tides, according to a new…
Jurassic 'burn-down' events and organic matter richness in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation
— 20 Jan 2010 11:57 | Geology and palaeontologyThe sediments of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation were deposited during the Late Jurassic between around 160 and 145 million years ago, the age of the reptiles. They are the main oil source…
From greenhouse to icehouse - reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau
— 16 Dec 2009 11:06 | EnvironmentThe analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history…
Algae and pollen grains provide evidence of remarkably warm period in Antarctica's history
— 1 Oct 2009 10:49 | Geology and palaeontologyFor Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology and geophysics and curator at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, years of patience in analysing Antarctic samples with low fossil…
Cause of mussel poisoning identified
— 25 Mar 2009 14:26 | BiologyThe origin of the neurotoxin azaspiracid has finally been identified after a search for more than a decade. The azaspiracid toxin group can cause severe poisoning in human consumers…
How corals adapt to day and night
— 12 Sep 2008 19:40 | BiologyResearchers have uncovered a gene in corals that responds to day/night cycles, which provides some tantalising clues into how symbiotic corals work together with their plankton partners.…
New threat for coral reefs in the tropics
— 4 Sep 2008 20:31 | EnvironmentHuman activities bear a large part of the responsibility for coral reef degradation. Several threats hang over this complex ecosystem with its extraordinary biodiversity, whether in…
Exploding chromosomes fuel research about evolution
— 23 Aug 2008 16:24 | BiologyHuman cells somehow squeeze two metres of double-stranded DNA into the space of a typical chromosome, a package 10,000 times smaller than the volume of genetic material it contains.…
Researchers identified a potential 'red tide killer'
— 3 May 2008 17:53 | EnvironmentResearchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential 'red tide killer.' Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate…
Researchers view swimming tactics of tiny aquatic predators
— 24 Oct 2007 21:08 | BiologyBy applying state-of-the-art holographic microscopy to a major marine biology challenge, researchers from two Baltimore institutions have identified the swimming and attack patterns…