Volvox carteri
kangaroo, a Mobile Element From Volvox carteri, Is a Member of a Newly Recognized Third Class of Retrotransposons
... Retrotransposons play an important role in the evolution of genomic structure and function. Here we report on the characterization of a novel retrotransposon called kangaroo from the multicellular green alga, ...
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Morphology, taxonomy and mating-type loci in natural populations of Volvox carteri in Taiwan
... Volvox carteri f. nagariensis is an oogamous species that has heterothallic sexuality determined by the sex- determining chromosomal region or mating-type locus where the presence of sex-specific genes ...
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Comparative genomic analysis of retrogene repertoire in two green algae Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
... Volvox carteri (hereafter Volvox), a multicellular green alga commonly found in freshwater habitats, is a widely used model organism in studying the evolutionary tran- sition from unicellular ...
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Translational control of regA, a key gene controlling cell differentiation in Volvox carteri
... The complete division of labour between the reproductive and somatic cells of the green alga Volvox carteri is controlled by three types of genes. One of these is the regA gene, which controls terminal ...
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Sexual Pheromone Induces Diffusion of the Pheromone-Homologous Polypeptide in the Extracellular Matrix of Volvox carteri
... Volvox carteri is one of the simplest multicellular green algae, comprising 2,000 to 4,000 biflagellate somatic cells arranged in a monolayer surface around a hollow sphere and 16 reproduc- tive cells ...
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Hydrodynamic synchronization and metachronal waves on the surface of the colonial alga Volvox carteri
... alga Volvox carteri shows that large scale flagellar coordination is possible even in weakly coupled systems, and that detailed quanti- tative information on the average wave properties can be obtained with ...
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Whole transcriptome RNA-Seq analysis reveals extensive cell type-specific compartmentalization in Volvox carteri
... V. carteri alga uses sunlight alone as the primary energy source, all required energy is provided by converting light energy into chemical energy by photosynthesis, which is conducted in the big chloroplast of ...
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A PRELIMINARY GENETIC INVESTIGATION OF VOLVOX CARTERI
... Crosses involving ammonia-requiring mutants were tested by placing five to 10 spheroids from the germling tube in Va-8 medium without NH,C1 supplement and scored for g[r] ...
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Metachronal waves in the flagellar beating of Volvox and their hydrodynamic origin
... alga Volvox carteri. As a model organism, Volvox has the fundamental advantage that its flagella are well separated from each other and hence much more in the low-coupling limit than for any other ...
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There is more than one way to turn a spherical cellular monolayer inside out: type B embryo inversion in Volvox globator
... algae Volvox, a mor- phogenetic process known as inversion occurs during ...embryogenesis. Volvox inversion bears significant simi- larity to metazoan gastrulation and has been suggested as a model system ...
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How 5000 independent rowers coordinate their strokes in order to row into the sunlight: Phototaxis in the multicellular green alga Volvox
... in Volvox. These descriptions and models of the swimming behavior in Volvox refer to the cells at the anterior hemisphere of the spheroid as being a crucial factor in phototactic steering and in its ...
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Protective Effect of Boswellia carteri on Aluminium Chloride-Induced Alzheimer's Disease in Male Albino Rat
... In this study, treatment of AD rats with B. carteri daily for 8 weeks leads to significant increase in cortex and hippocampus homogenates of GSH, GSSG and SOD and significant decrease in LPO levels. The ...
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Frankincense oil derived from Boswellia carteri induces tumor cell specific cytotoxicity
... Frankincense resin is obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia (family Burseraceae). Incisions are made in the trunks of the trees to produce exuded gum, which appears as milk like resin. The resin hardens into ...
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Bioactive pyrrole alkaloids isolated from the Red Sea : marine sponge Stylissa carteri
... The n-BuOH-soluble material of S. carteri was concentrated under vacuum to afford 18 g. It was subjected to column chromatography on sephadex LH-20 using methanol as mobile phase. Four fractions were obtained (I ...
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Volvox and volvocine green algae
... use Volvox or its multicellular relatives, while the Chlamydomonas community is considerably ...tional Volvox Conference is held in odd years, with the most recent one in Tokyo, Japan in 2019 ...The ...
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The Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO) Indication at Low Latitude Sediment Case Study: The Miocene Cibulakan Formation, Bogor Basin, Indonesia
... Santoso et al. [19], analyzing the high abundance population of Helicosphaera carteri on Late Miocene – Pliocene Sediments in North East Java Basin, Indonesia, in low salinity condition. Umblicosphaera jafari ...
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Miocene Calcareous Nannofossils from the Mut Basin, southern Turkey
... The present study confirms the stratigraphic position of the Medetsiz Member (Cyclicargolithus floridanus Zone) above the Mut Limestone Formation (Helicosphaera carteri Zon[r] ...
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Flagellar regeneration in the scaly green flagellateTetraselmis striata (Prasinophyceae): regeneration kinetics and effect of inhibitors
... carteri too the higher initial rate and the deceleratory kinetics of flagellar regeneration following amputation are related to the presence of a pool of flagella[r] ...
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