Sentences with phrase «of algal cells»

A pyrenoid (blue) is seen in a cross-section of an algal cell by false - colored electron microscopy.

Researchers think the crustacean is responding to either chemical signals or the touch of an algal cell on its antennae.

Not exact matches

A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis.

Perhaps the most threatening member of the predatory panel is a rotifer, a microscopic organism capable of eating 200 algal cells per minute.

By investigating the interactions within algal colonies, researchers hope to understand how single cells took the evolutionary leap to mass organization hundreds of millions of years ago.

In fact, the team's research showed that ROC40 helps control lipid production when the algal cells were starved of nitrogen.

Some of the algae, or phytoplankton, manufacture saxitoxin, a poison so devastating it is the underlying cause of paralytic shellfish poisoning, an often - lethal reaction to shellfish that are storing toxic algal cells.

Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, and colleagues, inserted into mice the gene which codes for the algal protein ChR2, which caused the protein to attach itself to the surface of nerve cells.

Scientists unleashed Metridia longa, a copepod of the northern seas, into tanks of algae and found that an algal cell didn't have to bump into a copepod to be detected.

A report in the 15 February issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that a lotion containing an algal protein can ward off sunburns — often the first step on the road to skin cancer — by repairing part of the damage to skin cells» chromosomes.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Gettysburg College found that this symbiosis, the only known example that includes a vertebrate species, puts stress on algal cells, changing the way they make energy, but does not seem to negatively impact salamander cells.

In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratory.

«By studying both the proteins and metabolites, which interact to form metabolic pathways, we put together a picture of what's happening inside the competitor algal cells when they're extremely stressed.»

The endosymbiotic acquisition of a eukaryote cell is represented in the cryptophytes; where the remnant nucleus of the red algal symbiont (the nucleomorph) is present between the two inner and two outer plastid membranes.

Genes exclusive to V. carteri and one of its close multicellular algal relatives that does not have differentiated cell types, Gonium pectorale, were not specifically enriched in either V. carteri cell type.

and one of its close multicellular algal relatives that does not have differentiated cell types,

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

At the start of the experiment in late September, the conditions were truly oligotrophic: «The nutrient concentrations were hardly above the detection limit, and the plankton community was dominated by tiny algal cells and microzooplankton species.

Also, they noted a growing number of specialised bacterial and algal cells in this microenvironment.