The community structure and ecological function of contemporary marine ecosystems are
critically dependent on eukaryotic phytoplankton. Although numerically inferior to …

Diatoms are the world's largest contributors to biosilicification and are one of the
predominant contributors to global carbon fixation. Silicon is a major limiting nutrient for …

Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates is the second identification manual created
from the literature developed for the Advanced International Phytoplankton Course. This …

Mid‐Cretaceous (Barremian‐Turonian) plankton preserved in deep‐sea marl, organic‐rich
shale, and pelagic carbonate hold an important record of how the marine biosphere …

Diatoms are the major contributors to phytoplankton blooms in lakes and in the sea and
hence are central in aquatic ecosystems and the global carbon cycle. All free-living diatoms …

Diatoms are the most recent major algal lineage added to the geological record, appearing
more than 200 million years ago. They are stramenopile protists resulting from a secondary …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the evolution of the diatoms and of various groups
within the diatoms and evaluates the significance of particular shared derived traits. The …

The silicified bipartite cell walls of diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) are produced in intracellular
compartments by precipitation from supersaturated Si (OH) 4 and are then externalized …

Diatoms are the most successful group of eukaryotic phytoplankton in the modern ocean
and have risen to dominance relatively quickly over the last 100 million years. Recently …