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, ...

A team of researchers has discovered two new and unusual species of diatoms in the waters off Hawai'i. The organisms were also found to fix nitrogen, a critical process that supports productivity in ...

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 ...

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 ...