With such a variety to puzzle games over the years, it’s always fun and interesting to find something that’s new. Enter Volvox, a curious hand-drawn game about guiding three-sided “Trimoebas ...

(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, might act in the ...

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 ...

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 ...