Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2019), pp. 833-847 (16 pages) In costal ecosystems, copepods coexist with toxin-producing phytoplankton. The presence of copepods can amplify the ...

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, ...

Diatoms are some of the most common algae found in the ocean. There are at least 100,000 species. Most of these tiny diatoms use photosynthesis. This means that they use sunlight, carbon dioxide and ...

The two most important plants on earth are grass and diatoms. About grass the shepherd, farmer and scientist know a great deal. About diatoms and dinoflagellates, which are microscopic sea plants ...

pt. 1. Acanthoceras through Bacillaria -- pt. 2. Bacteriastrum through Coscinodiscus -- pt. 3. Coscinophaena through Fibula -- pt. 4. Fragilaria through Naunema -- pt ...

Microscopic view of domoic acid producing Pseudo-nitzschia diatom in a seawater sample from Monterey Bay, California. This diatom species, when in active growth, typically forms long chains of ...