Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too. Diethard Tautz is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany, and at the Stellenbosch Institute for ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing that an HMG-box gene in brown algae plays a crucial role in determining male sex. This finding ...

Developmental and morphological diversity in brown algae. a, Phylogenetic position of F. serratus, F. distichus and Ectocarpus in a simplified eukaryotic tree of life. An arrow marks the ...

Morphologically simpler brown algae like Ectocarpus and the gametophytes of Laminaria digitata and Saccorhiza polyschides do ...

The diatom collections are curated separately. The algae collections number around 400,000 specimens. The main algal groups represented here are: red, green and brown seaweeds freshwater algae ...

Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked with Akira Peters and Mark Cock to establish the brown algae Ectocarpus as a model organism in evolutionary research. Since 2006 she worked at the Centre National ...