Plankton are vital to planetary and climate stability and are therefore important contributors to human well-being.

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

You're by the water's edge, observing a turquoise lagoon, then a little further away, you see an almost black sea at the foot ...

A new study led by researchers from the U of A found that diatoms evolved slowly for the first 100 million years of their existence. Then, 170 million years ago, they reached an inflection point ...

Blooms of diatoms in coastal areas are common and natural in the surf zone of some types of sandy beaches (surf-zone diatoms), and have been extensively studied both in Brazil and globally (TALBOT et ...

Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Credit: Benoit Gallet and Martin Oeggerli, Micronaut A ...

The nucleus of the diatom is shown in bright blue. Credit: Mertcan Esti/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany An enigmatic marine nitrogen fixer hiding within a diatom. For ...

Diatoms are usually the major component of the algal flora in many streams, although green and blue-green algae may be present. These experiments were designed to determine if high temperature or a ...

One example of these tiny breadcrumbs is diatoms, a group of microalgae found in water habitats across the planet. Dexter fans may recall that The Bay Harbour Butcher’s boat location was ...

The blue whale is also known as the sulfur-bottom whale. Cold water diatoms stick to the whale’s skin, giving the animal’s underbelly a yellowish tinge, which is where that other common name comes ...

Diatoms have the potential to adapt to different conditions such as variations in light intensity, spectral quality and light shift [11] [12] ... blue light controls the onset of cell division, while ...