As one of the general primary producers, diatoms are an important component of submarine biogenic sediments. In sea areas where the water depth is greater than the carbonate compensation depth, fossil ...
Axenic cultures of P. tricornutum (Pt1, CCAP 1055/3, Martino et al., 2007) were grown in a 250 mL Erlenmeyer flask in an artificial seawater ESAW (Berges et al., 2001) supplemented with extra NaNO 3 ...