There will be two special sessions at the 2010 ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences meeting all about diatoms and marine metagenomics
Colleen Durkin and co-authors recently published a study in Eukaryotic Cell about chitin in diatoms.
The May 14, 2009 issue of Nature features five review articles on microbial oceanography in the Insight section, one of which is "The life of diatoms in the world's oceans".
