Our study uses diatoms as an example to show how small-scale effects can lead to ocean-wide changes with unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for marine ecosystems and matter cycles.

The bulk of the time was spent combining fossil information about diatoms with the newly sequenced transcriptomes (the genes expressed by an organism) from 181 different diatoms to reconstruct the ...

This work is based on a genome-scale metabolic modeling approach that the team used to unravel the metabolism of the diatom Cylindrotheca closterium.

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

We examine diatoms via research-grade microscopes. Our lab also houses several thousand glass microslides and archived material, primarily from arctic, alpine and Antarctic lakes and streams. Our work ...

The current study relies on diatoms preserved in time in the sediments of freshwater lakes. Paul Hamilton, the curator of the algae collection at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada ...

So the next time you enjoy a bowl of clam chowder or salmon dinner, or marvel at the sight of huge whales off the coast, you can thank the simple, humble diatom.

The bulk of the time was spent combining fossil information about diatoms with the newly sequenced transcriptomes (the genes expressed by an organism) from 181 different diatoms to reconstruct the ...

Single-celled algae and marine bacteria live in a complex but largely unexplored relationship. Now, a new study shows that the surface of diatoms is a surprisingly diverse habitat for bacteria. A ...