The first bacteria moved through the ooze; then came blue-green algae, spreading across the planet like a watery carpet, drinking in sunlight and exhaling oxygen, giving breath to everything that came after.
Then these algae spread to the entire area of the reservoir.
Five days after the L.A. pipeline rupture, officials in Toledo, Ohio, declared the tap water for half a million people unsafe to drink, tainted by toxic algae spreading in the warm waters of Lake Erie.
Subsequently, the primary plastids of red and green algae spread to other eukaryotic lineages by "secondary" endosymbiosis, e.g., in the haptophytes, stramenopiles and euglenophytes.
A fungus (Fusarium) began to grow inside the cave, and algae spread on the floor, walls, and ceiling, threatening the integrity of the paintings.
Mucky algae might spread, turning the sea red.
Nitrogen fertilisers get washed into streams, rivers, lakes and coastal areas where they feed algae that spread in thick carpets over the waters, suffocating life below.
The sequenced synthwork oozes like algae blooms, spreading toxically over the surface of abstract rhythms and just when you've settled into something you can nod your head to, Mao pulls the rug out in favor of something else altogether.
Caulerpa taxifolia of the Chlorophyta, called the "Killer Algae," has spread from the Indian Ocean to areas off the coasts of Australia, into the Mediterranean, and along the coasts of the United States, affecting many native marine ecosystems.
The concentrated algae were spread and immobilized on a cellulose acetate membrane filter and subjected to particle bombardment.
