A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

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.

Tiny diatoms are beautiful, ... About 20 percent of that oxygen comes from photosynthesis by marine diatoms — the most important little organisms that most people have never heard of.

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

The study was published in Plant Physiology on Sept. 23.. Cultivation of marine diatoms in the laboratory is under constant light conditions, but the light environment in the ocean is not constant ...

A simple single-celled marine organism, known as a diatom, has an enormous impact on our atmosphere and oceans, and without these chlorophyll- producing organisms classified as phytoplankton, life ...

Take a deep breath. Now take nine more. According to new research, the amount of oxygen in one of those 10 breaths was made possible thanks to a newly identified cellular mechanism that promotes ...

Here, we compared thermal reaction norms for cellular C, N, P, and chlorophyll a (Chl a) content and for carbon assimilation rate in replicate populations of the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana ...

Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, ...