Many aquatic microbes form colonies, yet little is known about their abundance and fitness relative to single-celled taxa. The formation of diatom chains, in particular, has implications for diatom ...

Tiny creatures at the bottom of the food chain called diatoms suck up nearly a quarter of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide, yet research suggests they could become less able to "sequester" that ...

Diatoms are the main component of phytoplankton and thus form the basis of the marine food chain. Because they carry out photosynthesis with their chloroplasts, they account for a large proportion of ...

A fluorescence microscopy image of phytoplankton including chain-forming diatoms and many large dinoflagellates. The different colors indicate different components of the cells including the cell's ...

This is a chain of individual diatom cells stained with a fluorescent dye to show newly formed cell walls (blue). The red is fluorescence from chlorophyll. The white bar is a 10 micron scale bar.

Researchers in India have demonstrated that microscopic aquatic creatures could be used as the ecological equivalent of a canary in a coalmine for assessing inland freshwater lakes and ponds. The team ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Excessive rates of carbon dioxide affect the health of key micro-organisms in the oceans, potentially undermining the base of critical ...