Volvox is a gorgeous and deceptively challenging hand-drawn puzzle game from indie developer Neotenia that is sure to please indie puzzle game fans.

(A) Young Volvox adult, with about 2,000 small somatic cells in a monolayer at the surface, and nineteen large gonidia embedded in the extracellular matrix (ECM), just under the somatic cell layer.

In Volvox, regA acts in a pathway (shaded green) that represses growth and cell division in response to developmental cues; while the descendent of regA*, known in Volvox as rlsD, ...

To gather data for the comparative genomic analysis, the researchers sequenced the 138 million base pair Volvox genome using a whole genome shotgun strategy. The genome itself is 17% larger than ...

Ancestors of the alga Volvox made the transition from the solitary life of a single-celled organism to that of a multicellular colony much earlier than previously thought, according to new ...

A key finding was that the opposed mark and the earlier mark VOLVO were dissimilar conceptually, as the opposed mark gave rise to the meaning of “freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox”. Register ...

Infographic: The Evolution of Volvox View full size JPG | PDF Lucy Reading-Ikkanda (diagrams and cells); SOURCE: David L. Kirk. The volvocine algae are a model system for studying the evolution of ...