Sentences with phrase «called dinoflagellates»

In Cayman, there are millions of single celled organisms called dinoflagellates that float in the sea, which when disturbed, emit a bright white light.

That means the coral likely relies on microscopic symbiotic organisms called dinoflagellates to biosynthesize cysteine for it, making the coral particularly susceptible to changing climate conditions that endanger its tiny helpers.

Strictly speaking, Pfiesteria is not an alga but belongs to a group of single - celled organisms called dinoflagellates.

The Dino Sphere is an incredible, living object that's filled with thousands of non-toxic plankton organisms called Dinoflagellates.

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Biophysicist Jian Sheng of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and his colleagues studied toxic and non-toxic strains of a dinoflagellate species, found in Chesapeake Bay on the eastern US coast, called Karlodinium veneficum.

Out of the vast diversity of plankton in the oceans, the worst offenders are a few species of diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria, collectively called harmful algae.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

Two are caused by dinoflagellate species, Prorocentrum minimum and Kalrodinium veneficum, and the third by cyanobacteria, sometimes called blue - green algae.

Until now, how dinoflagellates acquired and fired these projectiles, called extrusomes, was unclear.

In fact, structurally comparable weapons systems, called nematocysts as well, are found in a group of modern protozoans, the dinoflagellates.

The algae that form red tide in the Gulf of Mexico are dinoflagellates called Karenia brevis, or just Karenia by scientists.

At certain times and under certain conditions, some dinoflagellate species and other algal species can undergo population explosions called blooms, sometimes in response to human - caused pollution.