An expected outcome of climate change is intensification of the global water cycle, which magnifies surface water fluxes, and consequently alters salinity patterns. It is therefore important to understand the adaptations and limits of microalgae to survive changing salinities. To this end, we sequenced the 13.5 Mbp genome of the halotolerant green alga Picochlorum SENEW3 (SE3) that was isolated...

In a high dispersion 1 μm survey of 39 classical T Tauri stars veiling is detected in 80%, and He I λ10830 and Pγ line emission in 97% of the stars. On average, the 1 μm veiling exceeds the level expected from previously identified sources of excess emission, suggesting the presence of an additional contributor to accretion luminosity in the star-disk interface region. Strengths of both lines c...

Daily rhythms play a key role in transcriptome regulation in plants and microalgae orchestrating responses that, among other processes, anticipate light transitions that are essential for their metabolism and development. The recent accumulation of genome-wide transcriptomic data generated under alternating light:dark periods from plants and microalgae has made possible integrative and comparat...

Context. V1094 Tau is a bright eclipsing binary star with an orbital period close to nine days that contains two stars similar to the Sun. Aims. Our aim is to test models of Sun-like stars using precise and accurate mass and radius measurements for both stars in V1094 Tau. Methods. We present new spectroscopy of V1094 Tau, which we use to estimate the effective temperatures of both stars and to...

We examine how accretion on to T Tauri stars may be modulated by a time-dependent ‘magnetic gate’ where the inner edge of the accretion disc is disrupted by a varying stellar field. We show that magnetic field variations on time-scales ≪ 10 yr can modulate the accretion flow, thus providing a possible mechanism both for the marked photometric variability of T Tauri stars and for the possible co...

As a result of an invasion by the native grass Elymus athericus (Link) Kerguélen (Poaceae) in the last 10 years, a major change in vegetation cover has occurred in salt marshes of the Mont Saint-Michel bay, Western France. The impact of such an invasion on carabid assemblages, a dominant group of terrestrial arthropods in these habitats and containing several stenotopic species, is investigated...

Significance to the Landscape and Nursery Industries In the face of California’s rapid population growth, the competition for increasingly limited water resources has necessitated the use of recycled water for landscape and nursery irrigation. A reference list of the sensitivity of plant species to recycled water would facilitate implementation of recycled water irrigation. The information gene...

We present accurate radial velocity measurements on the pulsating extremely iron-deficient post-AGB object HD 52961 and the RV Tauri star EN TrA (HD 131356) proving them to be binaries. Our long-term photometric monitoring campaign shows that the RV Tauri photometric class “b” phenomenon in HD 52961 is due to variable circumstellar extinction during orbital motion. By comparing carefully the ob...

We have analyzed GHRS data of eight Classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) and one Weak T Tauri star (WTTS). The GHRS data consist of an spectral range 40 Å wide centered on 2800 Å. For 4 of the CTTS we have nearly simultaneous optical observations which contain Hα, Hβ, He I, NaD, and the Ca II infrared triplet. The Mg II resonance doublet is the strongest feature in the 2800 Å range. This line has a ...

Context. Recent photospheric abundance studies of galactic field RV Tauri stars show that depletion of refractory elements is rather common in these evolved objects. Aims. The process that creates this chemical anomaly is not understood well, but it probably requires the presence of gravitationally bound dust in a binary system. We test for the presence of depletion in extra-galactic objects. M...