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including the
typical genus Volvox, and are
collectively known as the
volvocine algae. The
family was
named by
Ehrenberg in 1834, and it is
known in older...
- evolution. An
estimate using DNA
sequences from
about 45
different species of
volvocine green algae,
including Volvox,
suggests that the
transition from single...
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unicellular organisms with ****ual reproduction,
colonial or not, like the
volvocine algae Pandorina and Chlamydomonas, are "immortal" at some extent, dying...
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valuable model system to the
study of the
evolution of
anisogamy is the
volvocine algae,
which group of
chlorophytes is
quite unique for its
extant species...
- and make
males (or male
function of hermaphrodites) more redundant.
Volvocine algae have been
useful in
understanding the
evolution of ****ual dimorphism...
- (2019). "Morphology, phylogeny, and
taxonomy of two
species of
colonial volvocine green algae from Lake Victoria, Tanzania". PLOS ONE. 14 (11): e0224269...
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Fitness Reorganization during the
Transition to Multicellularity: The
Volvocine regA-like
Family as a Model".
Genes (Basel). 14 (4): 941. doi:10.3390/genes14040941...
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Nozaki H (November 2016). "Alternative
evolution of a
spheroidal colony in
volvocine algae:
developmental analysis of
embryogenesis in
Astrephomene (Volvocales...
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emergence of mortality, and can be
viewed in its
simplest version in
volvocine algae.
Those species with a
separation between sterile somatic cells and...
-
independent origins of
multicellularity and
cellular differentiation in the
volvocine algae". BMC Biology. 19 (1): 182. Bibcode:2021BMCB...19..182L. doi:10...
