As a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science in the mid-2000s, Karthick Balasubramanian monitored the water quality of major South Indian rivers. As part of this work, he would travel to ...

Diatoms, the beautiful baubles of the sea, boast form and function in ocean ecosystems. (Credit: Adobe Stock) Catherine Barzler, Senior Research Writer/Editor ...

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, ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2019), pp. 833-847 (16 pages) In costal ecosystems, copepods coexist with toxin-producing phytoplankton. The presence of copepods can amplify the ...

A new study has revealed how the glass-like shells of diatoms help these microscopic organisms perform photosynthesis in dim conditions. A better understanding of how these phytoplankton harvest and ...

Diatoms are some of the most common algae found in the ocean. There are at least 100,000 species. Most of these tiny diatoms use photosynthesis. This means that they use sunlight, carbon dioxide and ...

The two most important plants on earth are grass and diatoms. About grass the shepherd, farmer and scientist know a great deal. About diatoms and dinoflagellates, which are microscopic sea plants ...

A tiny algae recently discovered in India is helping to reconstruct how the oceans moved millions of years ago.