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unusual facts about alga



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American toad

Studies have shown that they have a mutualistic relationship with Chlorogonium alga, which makes tadpoles develop faster than normal.

Aylacostoma

These snails used to live in areas of white water in the Yacyretá Rapids, Paraná River, feeding on the algae that grow attached to the rocks on the bottom.

B. nitida

Bornetella nitida, a marine alga species found in throughout the Pacific Ocean, including Mauritius, Indonesia, Australia and Japan

Bembridge Beds

The Bembridge marls, freshwater, estuarine and marine clays and marls (70–120 ft.) rest upon the Bembridge limestone, a freshwater pool deposit (15–25 ft.), with large land snails (Amphidromus and Helix), freshwater snails (Planorbis, Lymnaea), and the fruits of Chara.

Bithynia tentaculata

This species is found on the substrate in fall and winter (including gravel, sand, clay, mud or undersides of rocks) and on aquatic macrophytes (including milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum and muskgrass, Chara spp.

Caulerpa taxifolia

This actually reduces the pollution in those areas, as the caulerpa consumes it: In an eight year study of Caulerpa beds in the French Bay of Menton, it was found that the alga reduced pollution and aided in the recovery of native Posidonia seagrass.

Ecological facilitation

A similar interaction occurs between the red alga Chondrus crispus and the canopy-forming seaweed Fucus in intertidal sites of southern New England, USA.

L. digitata

Laminaria digitata, the oarweed, a large brown alga species found in the sublittoral zone of the northern Atlantic Ocean

Preah Khan

A dark filamentous fungus was found in internal and external Preah Khan samples, while the alga Trentepohlia was found only in samples taken from external, pink-stained stone at Preah Khan.

Romance of Flamenca

The author was probably not a minstrel, but rather a cleric, most likely in the service of the Roquefeuil family at the court of Alga, and may have written the romance at the Benedictine monastery at Nant, Aveyron, and was erudite and may have even studied at the University of Paris.

Ruth Sager

From 1951 to 1955 was a staff member at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi as a model organism.

Scutellastra cochlear

It often grows in association with the crustose coralline alga Spongites yendoi and a filamentous red alga which it cultivates in a garden.

Shine-Dalgarno sequence

Although plastids are prokaryotic descendants and still have their prokaryotic translational machinery, SD-like sequences are not required in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts.

Trentepohlia aurea

Trentepohlia aurea is a green alga that grows on the trunks and branches of Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) where the tree occurs in coastal central California.

Tripeptide

Eisenin (pGlu-Gln-Ala-OH) is a peptide with immunological activity that is isolated from the Japanese marine alga, Eisenia bicyclis, which more commonly is known as, Arame

Vanvoorstia bennettiana

The alga has only been found in two localities; both in or near Sydney Harbour.


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