Occupying virtually every water-containing environment, essential to marine food chains, and implicated in the spread of toxic blooms, diatoms—algae with a siliceous cell wall—are of intense practical ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Single-celled algae known as diatoms, long thought to reproduce asexually, were recently found to ...

ABSTRACT: The last 2 decades have seen much controversy concerning the negative impacts that consumption of diatoms may have upon copepods. Because diatoms have traditionally been considered a major ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth’s oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have ...