#diatoms — Public Fediverse posts

Researchers investigate how freshwater diatoms stay in the light https://phys.org/news/2024-03-freshwater-diatoms-stay.html

Declines in ice cover are accompanied by light limitation responses and community change in freshwater #diatoms: Brittany Zepernick et al. https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/18/1/wrad015/7513090

"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."

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