ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Collective sinking promotes selective cell pairing in planktonic pennate diatoms.
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- Trade-off between sex and growth in diatoms: Molecular mechanisms and demographic implications.Science advances · 2022Article
- Pelagic diatoms communicate through synchronized beacon natural fluorescence signaling.Science advances · 2021Article
- Chlorophyll fluorescence as a light signal enhances iron uptake by the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under high-cell density conditions.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Pili allow dominant marine cyanobacteria to avoid sinking and evade predation.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Mating type specific transcriptomic response to sex inducing pheromone in the pennate diatom Seminavis robusta.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Influence of pycnocline on settling behaviour of non-spherical particle and wake evolution.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- On the fate of sinking diatoms: the transport of active buoyancy-regulating cells in the ocean.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020Article
- On the collision of rods in a quiescent fluid.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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Abstract
Finding a partner in an inherently unsteady 3-dimensional system, such as the planktonic marine environment, is a difficult task for nonswimming organisms with poor control over their orientation. We experimentally investigate the process of cell pairing in pennate marine diatoms and present field evidence of its occurrence in the ocean. We describe the mechanism as a 3-step process in which pennate diatoms (
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