Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on the To Humble Diatom
Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on the To Humble Diatom avatar

By , on January 15th, 2011 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Biology, Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Organisms, Paleobiology, Scientist!   , , , ,  

Dear Diatoms, You are pretty, and I like you. Haeckel liked you too, so did Gaudi. Obviously, they appreciated the little things in life. While you still make appearances now and again in modern life, let’s face it: being microscopic and aquatic, recognition is an up-current battle, and you can’t swim. Perhaps obscurity suits you? . . . → Read More: Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on the To Humble Diatom

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Nerve Toxins In The Deep
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By , on March 23rd, 2009 One comment   Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep

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