The common name for the phylum of microscopic unicellular STRAMENOPILES. Most are aquatic, being found in fresh, brackish, and salt water. Diatoms are noted for the symmetry and sculpturing of their siliceous cell walls. They account for 40% of PHYTOPLANKTON, but not all diatoms are planktonic.
    

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Freshwater diatom dividing, SEM

Freshwater diatoms SEM 3D image

Freshwater diatoms SEM

Freshwater diatom dividing, SEM, 3D image

Untersuchungen über Diatomeen : insbesondere über ihre Bewegungen und ihre vegetative Fortpflanzung / von Ernst Hallier.

A handy-book to the collection and preparation of freshwater and marine algae, diatoms, desmids, fungi, lichens, mosses and other of the lower crytogamia with instructions for the formation of an herbarium / translated and edited by the Rev. W.W. Spicer.

The movements of diatoms / by Jabez Hogg.

Notes on new species and localities of microscopical organisms / by J.W. Bailey.

Examination of some deep soundings from the Atlantic Ocean ; On some new localities of fossil Diatomaceae in California and Oregon / by J.W. Bailey.

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Untersuchungen über Diatomeen : insbesondere über ihre Bewegungen und ihre vegetative Fortpflanzung / von Ernst Hallier.

A handy-book to the collection and preparation of freshwater and marine algae, diatoms, desmids, fungi, lichens, mosses and other of the lower crytogamia with instructions for the formation of an herbarium / translated and edited by the Rev. W.W. Spicer.

The movements of diatoms / by Jabez Hogg.

Notes on new species and localities of microscopical organisms / by J.W. Bailey.

Examination of some deep soundings from the Atlantic Ocean ; On some new localities of fossil Diatomaceae in California and Oregon / by J.W. Bailey.