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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the mid-embryonic phase, brown algae express more evolutionarily older genes. This phase was found to be highly ...