Diatoms of the genus Fragilariopsis dominated the community of siliceous plankton sampled along a transect of the Western Antarctic coastal ocean, followed by silicoflagellates. Subsets of these ...

Figure 1: What is the origin of the quartz found in ancient mudrocks? The implications of this study are wide ranging, from our understanding of the evolution of marine plankton and links between ...

Silica forms the skeleton structures of a variety of aquatic plankton, including many diatoms ... This refers to "siliceous skeletons produced in disconnection from the photosynthesis and the ...