Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

Are sea animals involved in the reproductive cycle of algae, like pollinating insects on dry land? Dispersal of the male gametes, or spermatia, of red algae generally relies on water movement, and up ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...