UA press release (Need Sex? It's Probably Something About Stress; by Mari N. Jensen; June 9, 2004)

Science (Sex Gets Algae Through Hard Times; by Elizabeth Pennisi; June 15 2004)

New Scientist (Algae use sex to beat stress; by Anil Ananthaswamy; June 19 2004; Vol. 182 Issue 2452, p14)

Scientific American (Evolution: Sexual healing; by Charles Choi; August 2004; Vol. 291 Issue 2, p29)

Click here for an article contrasting the science and the "many sensationalized, out of context, and even nonsensical popular press treatments of this research" (UNB Science Continuum, Volume 5 Issue 11, August 18, 2004)

CBC News (Heat a turn-on for algae; June 9 2004)

Springer Science: news, (Free radicals responsible for "sex drive" - in algae; June 16 2004)

National Post (Sex evolved to heal effects of stress, study says; by Tom Spears; June 9 2004)

Globe and Mail (Why sex triumphs over all; by Stephen Strauss; June 12 2004)

Tucson Citizen (Algae Sex; by Paul Alen; July 6 2004)

CBC Radio – Information Morning, Saint John;  (http://nb.cbc.ca/saintjohn/media/algae23.ram)

Betterhumans, (Is Sex a Cure for Stress? Heat turns normally asexual algae into sexual deviants; by Gabe Romain; June 9 2004)

Other sites:  Newswise, Eurekalert, Science Daily,  Innovations-reports, Scienceblog, vista verde, Spektrumdirekt, ORF ON Science, Wissenschaft, Scienticker, Polskie Radio, BRIC, Wissen, Galileo, CBC News,  Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, The Ottawa Citizen, The Leader-Post, The StarPhoenix, Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist, The Windows Star, CanWestNews Service, Kennislink

 
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