Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

The carotenoid fucoxanthin enables diatoms to efficiently harvest the blue-green part of the sunlight for photosynthesis. An international research team now discovered how the algae produce this ...

Diatoms depend on silicon. They flock to locations where silicon is available. In the process, they generate enormous blue-green blooms. A bird's eye view of diatom blooms in the ocean.

Here’s how it works. Single-celled algae known as diatoms, long thought to reproduce asexually, were recently found to be friskier than expected. Researchers discovered that diatoms do engage in ...

Andrew Alverson is a biologist and expert on diatoms at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. You'll consume ...

Among the 19 million or so specimens housed here are plants procured on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, blue marlin reeled ... Dozens of diatoms—microscopic, single-celled algae encased in ...

We examine diatoms via research-grade microscopes. Our lab also houses several thousand glass microslides and archived material, primarily from arctic, alpine and Antarctic lakes and streams. Our work ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the environment. They fix up to 20% of the Earth's CO 2. A research team at the University of Basel, Switzerland ...

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 simple single-celled marine organism, known as a diatom, has an enormous impact on our atmosphere and oceans, and without these chlorophyll- producing organisms classified as phytoplankton ...