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, ...

Researchers sought to understand how diatoms -- microscopic, photosynthetic algae that make up an estimated 20 percent of global carbon sequestration and oxygen production -- are able to bloom in an ...

An area of the remote Southern Ocean that's long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of turquoise-colored light appears to be full of silica-rich diatoms, according to a new ...

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Artistic impression of the interaction of uranium with the freshwater diatom Achnanthidium saprophilum. Such diatoms can be the entry point for the accumulation of pollutants - for example ...

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 genus ...