This paper compiles and discusses all currently available nuclear genome size data for red algae in relation to their most recent taxonomic classification.

Zoë Popper, an Annals of Botany Editor, has a funded  PhD position to characterise algal cell walls and make cell wall-directed monoclonal antibodies, using biochemical analysis and immunocytochemistry. The project will also generate and investigate cell wall mutants of the putative model charophycean green alga, Penium margaritaceum. As Zoe and co-authors* wrote in their review earlier this year, Penium [...]