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 ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Increased water salinity in marine diatom Nitzschia disrupts photosynthetic apparatus connections and cell shell formation. Advanced photonic methods revealed ...

One group of microbes that preserve very well in lake sediments is the diatoms. These single-celled algae have delicately ornamented cell walls, of which each species is characterized by its ...

Skip to content viewer section. We performed outdoor experiments to evaluate the effect of temperature on photoinhibition properties in the cosmopolitan diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii. Cultures were ...

Oku, 52, is thought to be one of only a few diatom artists in the world. Diatoms are so tiny that he has produced about 600 pieces in the past decade. But with his creations gaining newfound ...

Diatoms, a plant-based plankton with a siliceous shell, are widely used as important indicators to understand past environmental and climate changes, as they are very sensitive to changes in the ...

The diatom collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is drawn from a variety of sources. It contains uncleaned and cleaned material, as well as permanent slides and material ...