Biological Oceanography

Table 2.1 Salient features of taxonomic groups of microalgae. Several groups seldom abundant in marine habitats ...

The nucleus is pear-shaped, with its narrow end located anteriorly beneath the roots of the flagellae. The root of ...

nucleus, or in some forms there is only a single mitochondrion of complex shape in this central posit ...

The Prymnesiophyta are particularly prominent in the oceanic phytoplankton. Emiliania huxleyi and other ...

bloom in sufficient density to reflect light strongly back into the sky, and appear in satellite images a ...

than other phytoplankton, hence their importance during blooms. Beside their importance as constituents o ...

Pennate diatoms are bilaterally symmetric, not radially symmetric. On each valve there are openings in the form ...

actin–myosin system and left behind as a mucus trail. The mucus strands can be fused together or remain as ...

Diatom frustule sculpture is complex, producing a variety of contacts between the cell membrane and the ...

chitinous spines than they do a form without them, presumably because longer spines make the cell more ...

more girdle bands, the nucleus enlarges with DNA duplication, and organelles, represented by Golgi body (G), ...

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(^) Silicon for frustule building must be available in the form of silicic acid; in fact the entire pro ...

(^) Vrieling et al. (1999) used vital dyes that fluoresce at low pH to show that precipitation ...

of an auxospore. This is usually, if not always, coupled with sexual reproduction. Drebes (1977) ...

D’Alelio et al. (2010) studied the life-cycle of a pennate diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata, by looking at a ...

Dinoflagellates – Dinophyceae (Pyrrophyta) (^) The biology of dinoflagellates has been reviewed at book length by ...

Some members of both naked and armored groups can prey upon smaller organisms such as diatoms, ciliated ...

Fig. 2.14 The feeding peduncle of Gymnodinium fungiforme (above) extending into an unidentified food particl ...

The naked, non-photosynthetic Gymnodinium fungiforme attacks prey by insertion into their tissue of a tubular pe ...