Lake Superior has a new native resident. It's been hanging around the shore for years, but until now it was regarded as an intercontinental drifter, not a homegrown local. So say Rebecca Bixby of the ...

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, ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have ...

Marine microbial communities form the basis for the functioning of marine ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity. With the application of metagenomics and metatranscriptomics in marine ...

When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...

Within the context of global change, understanding the mechanisms that influence the dynamics of carbon export from the photic layers to the ocean floors is of prime importance. Diatoms, which form ...

Christopher Lobban, a University of Guam professor emeritus of biology, has discovered an interesting new species of diatom from the Marshall Islands. His discovery is in addition to two potentially ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University ...

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 ...

The research team from the College of Fisheries and Life Science at Shanghai Ocean University conducts ecological surveys in 2024 on Chongming Island, Shanghai. [Provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A ...

The key to effectively measuring damagingly high levels of nutrients in freshwater streams lies in the microscopic organisms living in them, according to a group of Drexel University scientists. A ...