Comments on: Diatoms, or The Trouble With Life in Glass Houses

By: Cecilia Klinkenbergh

Cecilia Klinkenbergh — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:41:46 +0000

Thanks a lot for the very interesting article!

What amazes me more besides the diatom shapes is the “program” that builds it in such a organized purpose-like way.

Nature is indeed the first and most extensive program ever assembled.

By: Shamala Palaniappan

Shamala Palaniappan — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:17:03 +0000

Dear Jenifer, I love your blog! I am a biologist myself – well a geneticist. I also write creatively. I recently decided to rename my blog and will soon be forming a website. I loveeee this picture you have here and was wondering if you would allow me to use it for a backdrop for my website – I would want to insert a little pen nib into it, I could show you first if you prefer and obviously give all due credit to you. Do let me know and many thanks in advance, Sham

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By: Toxic Red Tides Can Attack By Air, Too | The Public Domain Site

Toxic Red Tides Can Attack By Air, Too | The Public Domain Site — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:32:47 +0000

[…] In a post I did last summer I wrote about what dinoflagellates are: Dinoflagellates are two-tailed plankton. They are also protists, the loose association of single-celled organisms with DNA inside nuclei and cellular organelles that are usually much bigger than bacteria or archaea. About half are predatory, half make their own food, and obviously, now we know some do both. The photosynthetic lot are the second most abundant constituent of the photosynthetic marine plankton after diatoms (which I covered here). […]

By: Hot Rhodopsin

Hot Rhodopsin — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:39:43 +0000

[…] In short, dinoflagellates are two-tailed plankton. They are also protists, the loose association of single-celled organisms with DNA inside nuclei and cellular organelles that are usually much bigger than bacteria or archaea. About half are predatory, half make their own food, and obviously, now we know some do both. The photosynthetic lot are the second most abundant constituent of the photosynthetic marine plankton after diatoms (which I covered here). […]

By: The 12 Days of Plankton

The 12 Days of Plankton — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:39:54 +0000

[…] I have covered diatoms before here, but not Acantharea or their larger group. Though Kirby compares them to fireworks, I see ornaments, which you can see too in Ernst Haeckel’s predictably gorgeous print here. They are radiolarians, amoeboid (yay!) protozoa that make intricate mineral skeletons. Acantharea‘s are somewhat improbably made of strontium sulfate — the mineral celestine, in keeping with our holiday theme — of all things. The acanthareans are currently classifed (probably not for long, as soon as the molecular people get their hands on them*) by their spine arrangement in a complex, and somewhat sadistic fashion that only a geometer could love. […]

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Help! Downy Mildews are Nomming My Pesto-to-Be — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:23:06 +0000

[…] are heterokonts (like brown algae and diatoms . . . remember?) which mean they have two kinds of flagella(propeller tails) for their swimming […]

By: 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Contest Opens Again

3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Contest Opens Again — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:16:15 +0000

[…] “The Seafaring Killer Bacterium” from earlier this year, and I also like “Diatoms, or the Trouble with Life in Glass Houses“, but you can nominate whoever and whatever you like, if you like. Each person can nominate […]