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unusual facts about algae



7-Phloroeckol

7-Phloroeckol is a phlorotannin found in the edible brown algae arame (Ecklonia bicyclis) and turuarame (Ecklonia stolonifera).

Acanthurus guttatus

It is considered to form an important link between algae, the primary producers in the ocean, and the detrital food web in the Pacific Ocean.

Bioerosion

The coral is converted to sand by internal bioeroders such as algae, fungi, bacteria (microborers) and sponges (Clionaidae), bivalves (including Lithophaga), sipunculans, polychaetes, acrothoracican barnacles and phoronids, generating extremely fine sediment with diameters of 10 to 100 micrometres.

Biohydrogen

In the late 1990s professor Anastasios Melis a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley discovered that if the algae culture medium is deprived of sulfur it will switch from the production of oxygen (normal photosynthesis), to the production of hydrogen.

Bjørn Føyn

He had taken the doctorate in 1935 with the thesis Lebenszyklus, Cytologie und Sexualität der Chiorophycee Cladophora Suhriana Kiltzing, on the algae Cladophora.

Brown algae

Brown algae are unique among heterokonts in developing into multicellular forms with differentiated tissues, but they reproduce by means of flagellated spores and gametes that closely resemble cells of other heterokonts.

Chlorella

Many institutions began to research the algae, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NIH, UC Berkeley, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Stanford University.

Chlorella pyrenoidosa

This algae was used in a 1961 study by Boeing to see about feasibility for the use of algae providing oxygen on space missions.

Chu 13

CHU 13 includes essential minerals and trace elements that are required by algae for growth, but does not include a carbon source and so is only appropriate for growth of phototrophs.

Coralline rock

Coralline Rock is a type of rock formed by the death of layers of Coralline algae.

David Steenblock

Chlorella: Natural Medicinal Algae” (Aging Research Institute, 1987)

Difucol

Difucol is a phlorotannin found in the brown algae Analipus japonicus and Cystophora retroflexa.

Echinosepala

The genus was formerly known as Echinella Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, but as this latter also refers to an algae genus, it has been changed to Echinosepala.

Elysia timida

It feeds on the algae Acetabularia acetabulum (from which it keeps the chloroplasts, that are able to continue photosynthesis in the slug's tissues) and Padina pavonia.

Epidendroideae

Epiphytes are common in some groups of plants, such as ferns, mosses, Strangler figs, lichens, and algae.

Etosha pan

The salt desert supports very little plant life except for the blue-green algae that gives the Etosha its characteristic colouring, and grasses like Sporobolus spicatus which quickly grow in the wet mud following a rain.

Gonionemus

Gonionemus is a genus of hydrozoan that uses adhesive discs near the middle of each tentacle to attach to eelgrass, sea lettuce or various types of algae instead of swimming.

Grass jelly

There are two common kinds of grass jelly in Vietnam which are Mesona chinensis (called sương sáo in Vietnamese) and Tiliacora triandra (called sương sâm; sương sa or rau câu is the name for jelly made from various kinds of algae).

GreenFuel Technologies Corporation

The GFT President, Chief Technology Officer and the inventor of a newly patented system for growing pollution-digesting algae inexpensively on an industrial scale is Isaac Berzin, who founded the company in April, 2001.

Hypostomus plecostomus

Their role is better filled in the average hobbyists aquarium by invertebrates such as Caridina multidentata and various species of snails, or simply with regular maintenance with an algae scraping implement.

Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret

The garden was created in 1857 by Gustave Thuret (1817-1875), a botanist best known for studies of reproduction in algae, who used it to conduct plant acclimatization trials with friend and lichen expert Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828-1911).

Joachim Hämmerling

His experimentation with the green algae Acetabularia provided a model subject for modern cell biological research, and proved the existence of morphogenetic substances, or mRNP.

Littoraria angulifera

Littoraria angulifera is a herbivore and browses on fungi and algae growing on the mangroves.

Mikael Heggelund Foslie

Foslie contributed an algal collection named Algae Norvegicae to the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Mitigation of aviation's environmental impact

A number of airlines have operated biofuel test flights including Virgin Atlantic Airways, which flew with one engine operating on a blend of 20% coconut oil and 80% traditional jet fuel, and Continental Airlines which flew with one engine operating on a blend of 44% Jatropha oil, 6% Algae oil and 50% traditional jet fuel.

Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux

In addition to these the museum houses other historical herbarium collections including those of Jean-François Gaudin (1766-1833) and Johann-Christoph Schleicher (1770-1834), as well as specialized collections of lichens, mosses, algae and fungi, myxomycetes (Myxogastria), and samples of seeds and pollen.

Oculinidae

These are photosynthetic algae that provide nutrients for the polyps while themselves benefiting from a safe environment and an elevated, sunny position.

Peltigera leucophlebia

This and other species in the genus contain a green algae in the genus Coccomyxa and also cyanobacteria in the genus Nostoc as symbionts.

Phycoplast

Some green algae of the class Charophyceae use phragmoplasts similar to those in embryophytes to organize and guide the growing cell plate.

Porites furcata

The niches and crevices in this coral are home to a range of invertebrates and other organisms including brittle stars, sea urchins, polychaete worms, chitons and algae.

Raceway pond

The Department of Energy's Aquatic Species Program experimented with raceway ponds for the cultivation of algae.

Randall Fontes

The project was to research action potential in the Algae Nitella, and the parenchama cells of the Mimosa pudica to determine their sensitivity to various external stimuli.

Red-eyed Damselfly

Males typically spent much of their time perched the leaves of floating vegetation such as water lilies or mats of algae.

Reef

However, other organism groups, such as calcifying algae, especially members of the red algae Rhodophyta, and molluscs (especially the rudist bivalves during the Cretaceous Period) have created massive structures at various times.

Robert James Shuttleworth

Here he collected on the Grimsel and the Oberland, and worked particularly at Red Snow and other freshwater algae, until weakness of the eyes compelled him to abandon the microscope.

Spirorbis corallinae

It lives primarily on the red algae Corallina officinalis, after which it takes its name, but is also known to live on Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus).

Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Spores form a part of the life cycles of a diverse range of organisms such as many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoa.

Tectura virginea

It favours rock pools and smooth rock covered with encrusting red algae such as Lithothamnion on which it feeds.

Tectus royanus

In adult shells the upper surface is invariably covered with algae, coralline and other, while the base usually supports a colony of Serpula.

Telalginite

Telalginite is a structured organic matter (alginite) in sapropel, composed of large discretely occurring colonial or thick-walled unicellular algae such as Botryococcus, Tasmanites and Gloeocapsomorpha prisca.

Testudinalia testudinalis

It is usually found on stones and boulders, especially those encrusted with red crustose algae such as Lithothamnion.

Trifucol

Trifucol is a phlorotannin found in the brown algae Scytothamnus australis and Analipus japonicus.

Ulva prolifera

China had its largest recorded bloom of the algae in 2013, in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Qingdao.

Uruma, Okinawa

Yabuchi Island is well known for its large population of habu, the poisonous pit viper of Okinawa, and its southern coast is dense with kasanori, and Okinawan species of Ulvophyceae, an edible algae.

Winogradsky column

These two gradients promote the growth of different microorganisms such as Clostridium, Desulfovibrio, Chlorobium, Chromatium, Rhodomicrobium, and Beggiatoa, as well as many other species of bacteria, cyanobacteria, and algae.


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