Diatoms are single-celled algae that produce intricately structured cell walls made of
nanopatterned silica (SiO2). The cell wall structure is a species-specific characteristic …

Profound changes are occurring in the strategies that biotechnology-based industries are
deploying in the search for exploitable biology and to discover new products and develop …

Abstract To date (1 November 2023), the online database AlgaeBase has documented
50,589 species of living algae and 10,556 fossil species here referred to four kingdoms …

We have applied “whole-genome shotgun sequencing” to microbial populations collected
en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the …

Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

By coupling a single-electron transistor to a high–quality factor, 19.7-megahertz
nanomechanical resonator, we demonstrate position detection approaching that set by the …

Picoplankton—cells with a diameter of less than 3 µm—are the dominant contributors to both
primary production and biomass in open oceanic regions,. However, compared with the …

We assess population dynamics of picophytoplankton groups (≤ 2 µm diameter;
Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and picoeukaryote) at a Pacific Ocean coastal site in the …

Small cells dominate photosynthetic biomass and primary production in many marine
ecosystems. Traditionally, picoplankton refers to cells≤ 2 μm. Here we extend the size …

PA Sims, DG Mann and LK Medlin. 2006. Evolution of the diatoms: insights from fossil,
biological and molecular data. Phycologia 45: 361–402. DOI: 10.2216/05-22.1 Molecular …