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  1. Researchers investigate how freshwater diatoms stay in the light phys.org/news/2024-03-freshwat

    Declines in ice cover are accompanied by light limitation responses and community change in freshwater #diatoms: Brittany Zepernick et al. academic.oup.com/ismej/article

    "a curious discovery in #LakeErie circa 2012 led #microbiologists to study an unseasonal display of winter abundance. #Blooms of diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic #algae—were alive and well beneath (and within) the lake's ice cover."

  2. In a new collaborative paper with Liz Williams we show that microalgae, especially #diatoms and not #bacteria induce larval settlement in the marine annelid #Platynereis #biorxiv #biology #larva #algae