Dinoflagellates are a type of single-celled algae, and each of these tiny creatures emits a small amount of light. There are so many dinoflagellates in the sea that when they all light up at once, the ...

He said testing for the microscopic creatures was thorough, incorporating not just water as in most studies, but also sand and macro-algae such as seaweed, accounting for dinoflagellates' complex ...

Dinoflagellates are single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata. Usually considered algae, dinoflagellates are mostly marine plankton, but they also are common in freshwater ...

The algae live in tropical marine ecosystems ... Lin's lab studies the genomics of marine creatures like dinoflagellates and diatoms, and H. opuntia is the first green alga they have sequenced.

DURING the past year phototactic behaviour has been studied in a number of motile green algæ and dinoflagellates at this laboratory and at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, California 1.