The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an incredibly strange and unusual way, according to new research. The findings lay the groundwork for further ...

During photosynthesis at high light intensities dangerous oxygen radicals can form inside cells. Dinoflagellates have a unique light-harvesting complex (antenna) which can divert superfluous energy ...

The three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture of cells has functional consequences for gene regulation, organismal development, DNA replication and mutational processes. Topologically associating ...

Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of unicellular primary producers and grazers that exhibit some of the most remarkable features known among eukaryotes. These include gigabase-sized nuclear genomes, ...

An international team of researchers has generated the most robust genome to date of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium microadriaticum, a species involved in a life-supporting symbiosis with corals.

Highly organised gene patterns and rod-shaped chromosomes set the genome of one species of dinoflagellates apart from other eukaryotes. “The genome for S. microadriaticum had already been sequenced ...

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, University College London and Bremen University recently studied a pristine collection of 92 million-year-old algae ...