Thanks to their valuable silica shells, diatoms are widely used in the food and beverage industries, as well as in the treatment of drinking water and wastewater. Diatomite—the fossilized ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2011), pp. 1399-1410 (12 pages) Iron limitation often results in increased cellular silica contents of diatoms, suggesting that diatoms grow thicker and ...

The Museum's diatom collection is one of the largest in the world, containing over 300,000 specimens accumulated from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The collections are a crucial ...

Diatoms are a type of phytoplankton found in the oceans and rivers and have glass shells. There are several tens of thousands species, most of which are 0.1 millimeter or smaller and come in ...

Diatoms developed a variety of mechanisms to form chain-like colonies, resulting in diverse morphologies and bulk mechanical properties. These properties affect translation, rotation, and deformation ...

Our diatom research is focused on the pursuit of comparative biology: the systematics, evolution and biogeography of freshwater diatoms. The research covers both extinct and extant taxa, and utilises ...

Blooms of diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic algae—were alive and well beneath (and within) the lake's ice cover. "Some of the main winter-spring diatom bloom formers, like Aulacoseira ...