From Graeme Murray
In Newswire you report a claim to have found the largest single-celled organism in the world
(This Week, 24 October, p 23).
To my knowledge, this title is held by the genus Caulerpa, with
individual cells of this alga spreading across up to a metre of seafloor. It is
multinuclear though, and perhaps distinctions are to be made on the basis of the
number of nuclei a cell needs to get by.
murray@newton.dialix.com.au
