All communities are dominated by a few species that account for most of the biomass and
carbon cycling. On the other hand, a large number of species are represented by only a few …

Estimates of the order of magnitude for the total number of microbial species on Earth range
from 10 3 to 10 9. Despite global dispersal of microorganisms, this number is probably rather …

Over the last decade, our understanding of the environmental controls on Pseudo-nitzschia
blooms and domoic acid (DA) production has matured. Pseudo-nitzschia have been found …

Lelong A., Hégaret H., Soudant P. and Bates SS 2012. Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae)
species, domoic acid and amnesic shellfish poisoning: revisiting previous paradigms …

We tracked temporal changes in protist diversity at the Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) station MareChiara in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea) on eight dates in 2011 …

Pseudo-nitzschia is a marine cosmopolitan genus of chain-forming planktonic diatoms. As
for the vast majority of phytoplankton organisms, species identification within this genus …

The morphology of strains of Skeletonema Greville emend Sarno et Zingone was examined
in LM, TEM, and SEM and compared with sequence data from nuclear small subunit rDNA …

Due to limited morphological differentiation, diatoms can be very difficult to identify and
cryptic speciation is widespread. There is a need for a narrower species concept if …

In the last few years, genome‐based studies in diatoms have received a major boost
following the genome sequencing of the centric species Thalassiosira pseudonana Hasle et …

In the open sea, primary production is almost totally based on photosynthesis by pelagic
unicellular or colonial microalgae, collectively known as phytoplankton. Benthic algae are …