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. Before ...

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 109, No. 3/4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 139-148 (10 pages) Historical and recent reports on Volvox aureus have not satisfactorily explained cellular ...

IN this third memoir M. Janet approaches the problem of the ontogenesis of the Volvox blastea (ccenobium). He confines himself to the methods of cell bipartition, but in later works he proposes to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A sulfated cell surface glycoprotein with an apparent molecular weight of 185,000 is synthesized in the multicellular organism Volvox only ...