One of the main reasons that I study the biological diversity of dinoflagellates is that they are a living laboratory for the evolution of endosymbiotic organelles. This is at least in part because, although they have plastids (chloroplasts) that seem to be ancestral to the group, dinoflagellates are all purely photosynthetic organisms. Some are parasitic or predatory (and… Continue reading →

We published a recent review on the “Evolutionary Origin of a Terrestrial Flora” in Current Biology. It is a part of a special issue on the History of Life on Earth. It walks through a general overview of morphological and physiological transitions in the movement from charophyte green algae to a terrestrial flora. I had originally… Continue reading →