New aquarium owners often face a common issue: a dusty brown film on surfaces. This isn't true algae but diatoms, microscopic ...

Diatoms are microscopic unicellular algae occurring in natural waters worldwide. During photosynthesis, they take up large quantities of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas emitted through ...

Fresh insight into the mechanisms underlying the global impact of diatoms came from the availability of the roughly 34 megabases (Mb) of DNA sequence for the nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial genomes ...