Morphological adaptations to small size in the marine diatom Minidiscus comicus

Minidiscus comicus is a marine centric diatom that has cells with diameters as small as 1.9 μm, which brings it close to the lower limit of diatom cell size and also near to the lower limit of photosynthetic eukaryote cells. One of the questions that this raises is whether the cycle of size decline...

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Published in:	Scientia Marina
Main Authors:	David Jewson, Akira Kuwata, Lluïsa Cros, José Manuel Fortuño, Marta Estrada
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2016-09-01
Subjects:	marine diatom minidiscus comicus size change size limit size restoration
Online Access:	http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1660