🌊✨ Meet the #ocean’s sparkle - #Dinoflagellates! These tiny single-celled #algae flash blue-green light when disturbed, making #waves look like glitter bombs at night. Found along shores and lagoons, their shimmer is nature’s defense...and wonder. buff.ly/c6ljqFG

Bioluminescence in motion: caused by tiny plankton called dinoflagellates, lighting up the sand when disturbed. A natural glow from cold light—no heat, just pure biology.

🎥: @joshg_photos
#Bioluminescence #NatureMagic #Science#Ocean #Dinoflagellates #MicroLife #Wildlife

Very happy to have contributed a tiny tiny piece to this beautiful story by Ananya & @johandecelle.bsky.social & co!
Highlighting the amazing work by our Lab Manager Extraordinaire Marine! Who made some of the most beautiful #UExM images of #dinoflagellates out there with amazing #Rubisco stainings.

I'm excited to extend next year's #ZOO3700 plankton lecture to include a digression into #dinoflagellates and #dimethylsulfide!

how you smell the ocean
how parasitoids find their prey
how clouds are formed
how we find life on another planet

Dinoflagellates - you rock!

Scientists, will you help an artist out? I don’t know what to put in my zine. I also didn’t know there was so much taxonomic drama. Love the tea. #sciencequestions #science #art #taxonomy #algae #dinoflagellates

🚨 Exciting news! Please welcome Norico Yamada to our team! 🌊

Norico joins us with a rich background, on the fascinating dinoflagellates that use diatoms as tertiary plastids.
Ahoy! 🚢

#Research #Dinoflagellates #Protistology #MarineScience #Evolution #NewCollaborations #MarineBiology

That time back in 2020 when Monterey Bay was blue. . . Just 24 hours later the lightning started the CZU Lightning Complex Fire . . .

#Bioluminescence #Blue #Waves #dinoflagellates #NotAI

#Protists are weird & wonderful! Let your students explore them with our paper models of #amoeba, #Paramecium, #Euglena, #Plasmodium, water & slime mold, brown & green #algae (#Chlamydomonas), #Giardia, #radiolarian, #diatoms & #dinoflagellates. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2qeWtFa
#EduSky #iteachbio

3 photos of a croissant-shaped microbe showing its honey-colored inner material retreating to the center after exposure to light

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light phys.org/news/2024-11...

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#Protists #Algae #Biology #Organelles #Biology #Dinoflagellates #Organelles

#protists #dinoflagellates #genomics #bioinformatics #mitochondria #evolution

Ciguatera poisoning: A review of the ecology and detection methods for Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa species Ciguatera poisoning is the most prevalent non-bacterial seafood illness globally, with an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 human cases reported annually. Wh…

Great new review by Joe Perkins on ecology & detection of the #dinoflagellates that cause #ciguatera @marine-omics.bsky.social 🐠 🐟 🧬 🎣 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates Abstract. Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae are taxonomically diverse, predominantly symbiotic lineages that are well-known for their associati

Really cool study from Shah et al. comparing the genomes of free-living vs symbiotic Symbiodiniaceae (algal symbionts of corals) #ProtistsOnSky #Coral #Dinoflagellates

New study showing great potential waterbirds have for dispersing microalgae such as #dinoflagellates by #endozoochory using simulating digestion. @CoDisperse @chavanleeuwen

Viral proteins as a potential driver of histone depletion in #dinoflagellates #algae #evolution https://rdcu.be/LUhZ