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• When Glass Develops Into A Shell: New Findings In Diatoms (Science Daily)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Diatoms are microalgae that are responsible for nearly a quarter of the oxygen we breathe, but how does their glass-like skeleton develop? Researchers have solved part of the mystery concerning these organisms, so abundant in our oceans, by discovering several genes that are involved in the storage and transport of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warmer Seas Blocking Nature’s Carbon Pump

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 552
  Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton. Climate change isn’t just warming the atmosphere, it’s also warming the ocean’s surface and deeper levels of the water column. This is known as the pelagic ocean (the “pelagic zone” is any part of the water column other than that at the sea floor) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 144
  Polar ice Diatoms, Dr. Gordon Taylor It has been long held that silica in reef tanks is bad, very, very bad. We avoid beach and play sand like it’s poison because it is believed that silica will cause an undesirable diatom bloom: brown glass, brown gook on rock and substrates, and unhappy reefkeepers. But what if ...
  4 weeks ago

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