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    Volvox carteri is a species of colonial green algae in the order Volvocales. The V. carteri life cycle includes a sexual phase and an asexual phase. V...
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    extensively at the cellular and molecular levels using the model species, Volvox carteri. Volvox is a genus of freshwater algae found in ponds and ditches, even...
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    extensively at the cellular and molecular levels using a model species, Volvox carteri. Spheroidal colony inversion evolved twice during evolution of the Chlamydomonadales...
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    algae of the genus Volvox, a model system for studying how unicellular organisms can evolve into multicellular organisms. In Volvox carteri, the 16 cells in...
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    in green microalgae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Gonium pectorale and Volvox carteri) and their catalytic domains (CD) belonging to GH9 Family show highest...
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  • also discovered and characterized VChR1 in the multicellular algae Volvox carteri. VChR1 produces only tiny photocurrents, but with an absorption spectrum...
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  • considered to have well defined cell types are some volvoceans, such as Volvox carteri, in which each organism is composed of distinct and interdependent cell...
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    organisms. Volvox is a genus of chlorophytes. Different species form spherical colonies of up to 50,000 cells. One well-studied species, Volvox carteri (2,000...
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    ciliate protozoan Blepharisma japonicum and the multicellular green algae Volvox carteri. In addition, male copepods can follow a three-dimensional pheromone...
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    frequency of mating and the formation of meiotic spores by 4 to 18-fold. Volvox carteri, a haploid multicellular, facultatively sexual green algae, can be induced...
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