One group of microbes that preserve very well in lake sediments is the diatoms. These single-celled algae have delicately ornamented cell walls, of which each species is characterized by its ...

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.

1619-1633 (15 pages) A microcosm study in iron-limited waters of the northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean was conducted to examine how iron availability affects the frustule-related response of ...

Summary of genetic events leading to adaptive radiation of diatoms in the N. sing1 lineage. Unlike most diatoms, which perform photosynthesis to generate carbon compounds, some members of the ...