The diatom Skeletonema. (Image credit: Andrew Alverson) Advances in DNA sequencing technologies have made it possible, and practical, to address these types of questions with whole-genome sequencing.

But even the sprawling diatom herbarium lacked all the answers—Desianti estimates that over one-third of the 900-odd species they collected from the wetlands are new to science.

More information: Andrew J. Alverson et al, Phylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2500153122.

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Diatom biosensor could shine light on future nanomaterials Date: March 23, 2012 Source: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Summary: A biosensor made of fluorescent proteins embedded in the ...

Diatom blooms are frequently terminated by aggregation and subsequent sedimentation (Alldredge and Gotschalk, 1989; Jackson, 1990).The formation of large, fast sinking aggregates was proposed to ...

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Diatom arrangements are a stunning example of that particularly Victorian desire to bring order to the world, to display nature in a rational way. Wim Van Egmond [/] Klaus Kemp [/] ...

But two new recordings by leading pianists—Guillermo Klein’s “Telmo’s Tune” (just released on Sunnyside) and Kris Davis’s “Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard” (out Sept. 1 ...

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