Diatoms were all the rage in Victorian times ... These miniscule creatures, long regarded primarily as the bottom link of the marine food chain, capture nearly as much of the gas as all the ...

An essential component of aquatic communities, the single-celled microscopic diatoms sequester about 20% of the planet's ...

The paper examined diatoms, which are unicellular algae that play an important role in freshwater and marine food webs. They ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, ...