Diatom

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Diatoms
Temporal range: Jurassic–Present
Light microscopy of a sampling of marine diatoms found living between crystals of annual sea ice in Antarctica, showing a multiplicity of sizes and shapes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Infraphylum:
Diatomista
Superclass:
Khakista
Class: Bacillariophyceae
Dangeard, 1933[1]
Synonyms

A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma)[a] is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a significant portion of the Earth's biomass: they generate about 20 to 50 percent of the oxygen produced on the planet each year,[10][11] take in over 6.7 billion tonnes of silicon each year from the waters in which they live,[12] and constitute nearly half of the organic material found in the oceans. The shells of dead diatoms can reach as much as a half-mile (800 m) deep on the ocean floor, and the entire Amazon basin is fertilized annually by 27 million tons of diatom shell dust transported by transatlantic winds from the African Sahara, much of it from the Bodélé Depression, which was once made up of a system of fresh-water lakes.[13][14]

Diatoms are unicellular organisms: they occur either as solitary cells or in colonies, which can take the shape of ribbons, fans, zigzags, or stars. Individual cells range in size from 2 to 200 micrometers.[15] In the presence of adequate nutrients and sunlight, an assemblage of living diatoms doubles approximately every 24 hours by asexual multiple fission; the maximum life span of individual cells is about six days.[16] Diatoms have two distinct shapes: a few (centric diatoms) are radially symmetric, while most (pennate diatoms) are broadly bilaterally symmetric.

The unique feature of diatoms are that they are surrounded by a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide), called a frustule.[17] These frustules produce structural coloration, prompting them to be described as "jewels of the sea" and "living opals".

Movement in diatoms primarily occurs passively as a result of both ocean currents and wind-induced water turbulence; however, male gametes of centric diatoms have flagella, permitting active movement to seek female gametes. Similar to plants, diatoms convert light energy to chemical energy by photosynthesis, but their chloroplasts were acquired in different ways.[18]

Unusually for autotrophic organisms, diatoms possess a urea cycle, a feature that they share with animals, although this cycle is used to different metabolic ends in diatoms. The family Rhopalodiaceae also possess a cyanobacterial endosymbiont called a spheroid body. This endosymbiont has lost its photosynthetic properties, but has kept its ability to perform nitrogen fixation, allowing the diatom to fix atmospheric nitrogen.[19] Other diatoms in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria are among the genera Hemiaulus, Rhizosolenia and Chaetoceros.[20]

Dinotoms are diatoms that have become endosymbionts inside dinoflagellates. Research on the dinoflagellates Durinskia baltica and Glenodinium foliaceum have shown that the endosymbiont event happened so recently, evolutionarily speaking, that their organelles and genome are still intact with minimal to no gene loss. The main difference between these and free living diatoms is that they have lost their cell wall of silica, making them the only known shell-less diatoms.[21]

The study of diatoms is a branch of phycology. Diatoms are classified as eukaryotes, organisms with a nuclear envelope-bound cell nucleus, that separates them from the prokaryotes archaea and bacteria. Diatoms are a type of plankton called phytoplankton, the most common of the plankton types. Diatoms also grow attached to benthic substrates, floating debris, and on macrophytes. They comprise an integral component of the periphyton community.[22] Another classification divides plankton into eight types based on size: in this scheme, diatoms are classed as microalgae. Several systems for classifying the individual diatom species exist.

Fossil evidence suggests that diatoms originated during or before the early Jurassic period, which was about 150 to 200 million years ago. The oldest fossil evidence for diatoms is a specimen of extant genus Hemiaulus in Late Jurassic aged amber from Thailand.[23]

Diatoms are used to monitor past and present environmental conditions, and are commonly used in studies of water quality. Diatomaceous earth (diatomite) is a collection of diatom shells found in the Earth's crust. They are soft, silica-containing sedimentary rocks which are easily crumbled into a fine powder and typically have a particle size of 10 to 200 μm. Diatomaceous earth is used for a variety of purposes including for water filtration, as a mild abrasive, in cat litter, and as a dynamite stabilizer.

Dwindling diatoms and the mixed layer
Earth's oceans teem with microscopic plants called phytoplankton. But according to a 2015 NASA study, populations of diatoms, the largest type of phytoplankton algae, have declined more than 1 percent per year from 1998 to 2012. Phytoplankton are an essential base of the marine food web and absorb carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean that originally came from the atmosphere. The tiny organisms occupy the uppermost layer of ocean water, called the mixed layer, where waves and currents continually churn, drawing up nutrients from a deeper layer of water below. Scientists say the phytoplankton declines observed over the 15-year study period are due to the mixed layer becoming shallower, which results in fewer nutrients reaching the diatoms. The reduction in population may reduce the amount of carbon dioxide drawn out of the atmosphere and transferred to the deep ocean for long-term storage.[24][25]
3D-animation of the diatom Corethron sp.
Displays overlays from four fluorescent channels
(a) Green: [DiOC6(3) fluorescence] - stains cellular membranes indicating the core cell bodies
(b) Cyan: [PLL-A546 fluorescence] - generic counterstain for visualising eukaryotic cell surfaces
(c) Blue: [Hoechst fluorescence] - stains DNA, identifies nuclei
(d) Red: [chlorophyll autofluorescence] - resolves chloroplasts [26]
The animation starts by overlaying all available fluorescent channels, and then clarifies the visualisation by switching channels on and off

Overview

Diatoms are protists that form massive annual spring and fall blooms in aquatic environments and are estimated to be responsible for about half of photosynthesis in the global oceans.[27] This predictable annual bloom dynamic fuels higher trophic levels and initiates delivery of carbon into the deep ocean biome. Diatoms have complex life history strategies that are presumed to have contributed to their rapid genetic diversification into ~200,000 species [28] that are distributed between the two major diatom groups: centrics and pennates.[29][30]

Morphology

Diatoms are generally 2 to 200 micrometers in size,

heterokonts, having four cell membranes and containing pigments such as the carotenoid fucoxanthin. Individuals usually lack flagella, but they are present in male gametes of the centric diatoms and have the usual heterokont structure, including the hairs (mastigonemes
) characteristic in other groups.

Diatoms are often referred as "jewels of the sea" or "living opals" due to their optical properties.[31] The biological function of this structural coloration is not clear, but it is speculated that it may be related to communication, camouflage, thermal exchange and/or UV protection.[32]

Diatoms build intricate hard but porous cell walls called

silica.[33]: 25–30  This siliceous wall[34]
can be highly patterned with a variety of pores, ribs, minute spines, marginal ridges and elevations; all of which can be used to delineate genera and species.

The cell itself consists of two halves, each containing an essentially flat plate, or valve, and marginal connecting, or girdle band. One half, the hypotheca, is slightly smaller than the other half, the epitheca. Diatom morphology varies. Although the shape of the cell is typically circular, some cells may be triangular, square, or elliptical. Their distinguishing feature is a hard mineral shell or frustule composed of opal (hydrated, polymerized silicic acid).

Mitochondria; create ATP
(energy) for the cell
  • Valves/Striae; allow nutrients in, and waste out, of the cell
    • Punctae (spots or small perforations on the surface)
  • Polar nodules (thickening of wall at the distal ends of the raphe)[35][36]
    • Selections from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), showing pennate (left) and centric (right) frustules.

    Diatoms are divided into two groups that are distinguished by the shape of the frustule: the centric diatoms and the pennate diatoms.

    Pennate diatoms are bilaterally symmetric. Each one of their valves have openings that are slits along the raphes and their shells are typically elongated parallel to these raphes. They generate cell movement through cytoplasm that streams along the raphes, always moving along solid surfaces.

    Centric diatoms are radially symmetric. They are composed of upper and lower valves – epitheca and hypotheca – each consisting of a valve and a girdle band that can easily slide underneath each other and expand to increase cell content over the diatoms progression. The cytoplasm of the centric diatom is located along the inner surface of the shell and provides a hollow lining around the large vacuole located in the center of the cell. This large, central vacuole is filled by a fluid known as "cell sap" which is similar to seawater but varies with specific ion content. The cytoplasmic layer is home to several organelles, like the chloroplasts and mitochondria. Before the centric diatom begins to expand, its nucleus is at the center of one of the valves and begins to move towards the center of the cytoplasmic layer before division is complete. Centric diatoms have a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on from which axis the shell extends, and if spines are present.

    Shape classification of diatom frustules. The images are 3D models. The actual sizes of the frustules are about 10–80 μm.[37]
    Structure of a centric diatom frustule [37]

    Silicification

    See also: Silicification

    Diatom cells are contained within a unique silica

    polymerisation of silicic acid monomers. This material is then extruded to the cell exterior and added to the wall. In most species, when a diatom divides to produce two daughter cells, each cell keeps one of the two-halves and grows a smaller half within it. As a result, after each division cycle, the average size of diatom cells in the population gets smaller. Once such cells reach a certain minimum size, rather than simply divide, they reverse this decline by forming an auxospore, usually through meiosis and sexual reproduction, but exceptions exist. The auxospore expands in size to give rise to a much larger cell, which then returns to size-diminishing divisions.[39]

    meltpond, infected with two chytrid-like [zoo-]sporangium fungal pathogens (in false-colour red). Scale bar = 10 μm.[40]
    Light microscopy of a living diatom. Numbered graduations are 10 micrometres apart
    Assorted diatoms (unknown species) isolated from moss in Bangalore, India.

    The exact mechanism of transferring

    phylogenetic study on silica transport genes from 8 diverse groups of diatoms, silica transport was found to generally group with species.[41]
    This study also found structural differences between the silica transporters of pennate (bilateral symmetry) and centric (radial symmetry) diatoms. The sequences compared in this study were used to create a diverse background in order to identify residues that differentiate function in the silica deposition process. Additionally, the same study found that a number of the regions were conserved within species, likely the base structure of silica transport.

    These silica transport proteins are unique to diatoms, with no

    frustules
    . One hypothesis as to how these proteins work to create complex structure is that residues are conserved within the SDV's, which is unfortunately difficult to identify or observe due to the limited number of diverse sequences available. Though the exact mechanism of the highly uniform deposition of silica is as yet unknown, the Thalassiosira pseudonana genes linked to silaffins are being looked to as targets for genetic control of nanoscale silica deposition.

    The ability of diatoms to make

    transgenic approaches. The results from this work have given a better understanding of cell wall formation processes, establishing fundamental knowledge which can be used to create models that contextualise current findings and clarify how the process works.[46]

    The process of building a mineral-based cell wall inside the cell, then exporting it outside, is a massive event that must involve large numbers of genes and their protein products. The act of building and

    biosynthetic capacities.[46]

    The first characterisations of the biochemical processes and components involved in diatom silicification were made in the late 1990s.[47][48][49] These were followed by insights into how higher order assembly of silica structures might occur.[50][51][52] More recent reports describe the identification of novel components involved in higher order processes, the dynamics documented through real-time imaging, and the genetic manipulation of silica structure.[53][54] The approaches established in these recent works provide practical avenues to not only identify the components involved in silica cell wall formation but to elucidate their interactions and spatio-temporal dynamics. This type of holistic understanding will be necessary to achieve a more complete understanding of cell wall synthesis.[46]

    Behaviour

    Chaetoceros willei
    Gran, 1897
    Chaetoceros furcillatus J.W.Bailey, 1856

    Most centric and araphid pennate diatoms are nonmotile, and their relatively dense cell walls cause them to readily sink. Planktonic forms in open water usually rely on turbulent mixing of the upper layers of the oceanic waters by the wind to keep them suspended in sunlit surface waters. Many planktonic diatoms have also evolved features that slow their sinking rate, such as spines or the ability to grow in colonial chains.[55] These adaptations increase their surface area to volume ratio and drag, allowing them to stay suspended in the water column longer. Individual cells may regulate buoyancy via an ionic pump.[56]

    Some pennate diatoms are capable of a type of locomotion called "gliding", which allows them to move across surfaces via adhesive mucilage secreted through a seamlike structure called the raphe.[57][58] In order for a diatom cell to glide, it must have a solid substrate for the mucilage to adhere to.

    Cells are solitary or united into colonies of various kinds, which may be linked by siliceous structures; mucilage pads, stalks or tubes; amorphous masses of mucilage; or by threads of chitin (polysaccharide), which are secreted through strutted processes of the cell.

    Planktonic diatoms such as Thalassiosira sp. (56-62), Asteromphalus sp. (63), Aulacoseira sp. (64-66), and Chaetoceros (see twin image above) often grow in chains, and have features such as spines which slow sinking rates by increasing drag.
    Some Thalassiosira diatoms form chain-like colonies, like these collected near the Antarctic peninsula coast by the schooner of the Tara Oceans Expedition for plankton research.
    This projection of a stack of confocal images shows the diatoms' cell wall (cyan), chloroplasts (red), DNA (blue), membranes and organelles (green).

    Life cycle

    Sexual reproduction
    Centric diatom (oogamy)
    Pennate diatom (morphological isogamy, physiological anisogamy)

    Reproduction and cell size

    Reproduction among these organisms is asexual by

    binary fission, during which the diatom divides into two parts, producing two "new" diatoms with identical genes. Each new organism receives one of the two frustules – one larger, the other smaller – possessed by the parent, which is now called the epitheca; and is used to construct a second, smaller frustule, the hypotheca. The diatom that received the larger frustule becomes the same size as its parent, but the diatom that received the smaller frustule remains smaller than its parent. This causes the average cell size of this diatom population to decrease.[15] It has been observed, however, that certain taxa have the ability to divide without causing a reduction in cell size.[59] Nonetheless, in order to restore the cell size of a diatom population for those that do endure size reduction, sexual reproduction and auxospore formation must occur.[15]

    Cell division

    Vegetative cells of diatoms are

    diploid (2N) and so meiosis can take place, producing male and female gametes which then fuse to form the zygote. The zygote sheds its silica theca and grows into a large sphere covered by an organic membrane, the auxospore. A new diatom cell of maximum size, the initial cell, forms within the auxospore thus beginning a new generation. Resting spores may also be formed as a response to unfavourable environmental conditions with germination occurring when conditions improve.[33]

    A defining characteristic of all diatoms is their restrictive and bipartite silica cell wall that causes them to progressively shrink during asexual cell division. At a critically small cell size and under certain conditions,

    auxosporulation restitutes cell size and prevents clonal death.[60][61][62][63][64] The entire lifecycles of only a few diatoms have been described and rarely have sexual events been captured in the environment.[30]

    Sexual reproduction

    Most eukaryotes are capable of sexual reproduction involving meiosis. Sexual reproduction appears to be an obligatory phase in the life cycle of diatoms, particularly as cell size decreases with successive vegetative divisions[65]. Sexual reproduction involves production of gametes and the fusion of gametes to form a zygote in which maximal cell size is restored[65]. The signaling that triggers the sexual phase is favored when cells accumulate together, so that the distance between them is reduced and the contacts and/or the perception of chemical cues is facilitated[66].

    An exploration of the genomes of five diatoms and one diatom transcriptome led to the identification of 42 genes potentially involved in meiosis[67]. Thus a meiotic toolkit appears to be conserved in these six diatom species[67], indicating a central role of meiosis in diatoms as in other eukaryotes.

    Sperm motility

    Diatoms are mostly

    gametes have one flagellum while the female gametes are large and non-motile (oogamous). Conversely, in pennate diatoms both gametes lack flagella (isogamous).[15] Certain araphid species, that is pennate diatoms without a raphe (seam), have been documented as anisogamous and are, therefore, considered to represent a transitional stage between centric and raphid pennate diatoms, diatoms with a raphe.[59]

    Degradation by microbes

    Certain species of bacteria in oceans and lakes can accelerate the rate of dissolution of silica in dead and living diatoms by using

    hydrolytic enzymes to break down the organic algal material.[68][69]

    Ecology

    Part of a series on
    Plankton
    Phytoplankton
    Trophic mode
    By size
    By taxonomy
    By habitat
    • Freshwater plankton
    Other types
    Blooms
    Related topics
    Regions of high abundance of diatoms in the ocean
    Diatom dominance (as a percentage of total cell counts)
    versus silicate concentration [70]

    Distribution

    Diatoms are a widespread group and can be found in the

    pelagically in open water, although some live as surface films at the water-sediment interface (benthic), or even under damp atmospheric conditions. They are especially important in oceans, where a 2003 study found that they contribute an estimated 45% of the total oceanic primary production of organic material.[72] However, a more recent 2016 study estimates that the number is closer to 20%.[73] Spatial distribution of marine phytoplankton species is restricted both horizontally and vertically.[74][33]

    Growth

    r-strategists
    (i.e. those organisms whose ecology is defined by a high growth rate, r).

    Impact

    The freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata, commonly known as Didymo, causes severe environmental degradation in water-courses where it blooms, producing large quantities of a brown jelly-like material called "brown snot" or "rock snot". This diatom is native to Europe and is an invasive species both in the antipodes and in parts of North America.[75][76] The problem is most frequently recorded from Australia and New Zealand.[77]

    When conditions turn unfavourable, usually upon depletion of nutrients, diatom cells typically increase in sinking rate and exit the upper mixed layer ("bust"). This sinking is induced by either a loss of buoyancy control, the synthesis of mucilage that sticks diatoms cells together, or the production of heavy resting spores. Sinking out of the upper mixed layer removes diatoms from conditions unfavourable to growth, including grazer populations and higher temperatures (which would otherwise increase cell metabolism). Cells reaching deeper water or the shallow seafloor can then rest until conditions become more favourable again. In the open ocean, many sinking cells are lost to the deep, but refuge populations can persist near the thermocline.

    Ultimately, diatom cells in these resting populations re-enter the upper mixed layer when vertical mixing entrains them. In most circumstances, this mixing also replenishes nutrients in the upper mixed layer, setting the scene for the next round of diatom blooms. In the open ocean (away from areas of continuous upwelling[78]), this cycle of bloom, bust, then return to pre-bloom conditions typically occurs over an annual cycle, with diatoms only being prevalent during the spring and early summer. In some locations, however, an autumn bloom may occur, caused by the breakdown of summer stratification and the entrainment of nutrients while light levels are still sufficient for growth. Since vertical mixing is increasing, and light levels are falling as winter approaches, these blooms are smaller and shorter-lived than their spring equivalents.

    In the open ocean, the diatom (spring) bloom is typically ended by a shortage of silicon. Unlike other minerals, the requirement for silicon is unique to diatoms and it is not regenerated in the plankton ecosystem as efficiently as, for instance, nitrogen or phosphorus nutrients. This can be seen in maps of surface nutrient concentrations – as nutrients decline along gradients, silicon is usually the first to be exhausted (followed normally by nitrogen then phosphorus).

    Because of this bloom-and-bust cycle, diatoms are believed to play a disproportionately important role in the export of carbon from oceanic surface waters[78][79] (see also the biological pump). Significantly, they also play a key role in the regulation of the biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean.[72][80]

    Reason for success

    Diatoms are ecologically successful, and occur in virtually every environment that contains water – not only oceans, seas, lakes, and streams, but also soil and wetlands.[

    buffering agent, facilitating the conversion of bicarbonate to dissolved CO2 (which is more readily assimilated). More generally, notwithstanding these possible advantages conferred by their use of silicon, diatoms typically have higher growth rates than other algae of the same corresponding size.[71]

    Sources for collection

    Further information on the genus of filamentous diatoms: Oscillaria

    Diatoms can be obtained from multiple sources.

    alimentary tracts of these animals often yield forms that are not easily secured in other ways. Diatoms can be made to emerge by filling a jar with water and mud, wrapping it in black paper and letting direct sunlight fall on the surface of the water. Within a day, the diatoms will come to the top in a scum and can be isolated.[83]

    Biogeochemistry

    Silica cycle

    Further information: Silica cycle

    The diagram shows the major

    seafloor sediment recycling, weathering, and hydrothermal activity.[80]

    Although diatoms may have existed since the

    filter-feeders primarily on the continental shelves.[87]
    Within the last 100 My, it is thought that the silicon cycle has come under even tighter control, and that this derives from the ecological ascendancy of the diatoms.

    However, the precise timing of the "take-over" remains unclear, and different authors have conflicting interpretations of the fossil record. Some evidence, such as the displacement of siliceous sponges from the shelves,[88] suggests that this takeover began in the Cretaceous (146 Ma to 66 Ma), while evidence from radiolarians suggests "take-over" did not begin until the Cenozoic (66 Ma to present).[89]

    • Ocean carbon cycle and diatom carbon dioxide concentration mechanisms
      Ocean carbon cycle and diatom carbon dioxide concentration mechanisms [90]

    Carbon cycle

    The diagram depicts some mechanisms by which marine diatoms contribute to the

    euphotic layer sinks down as particles, thus transferring the surface carbon toward the deep ocean and sequestering atmospheric CO2 for thousands of years or longer. The remaining organic matter is remineralized through respiration. Thus, diatoms are one of the main players in this biological carbon pump, which is arguably the most important biological mechanism in the Earth System allowing CO2 to be removed from the carbon cycle for very long period.[91][90]

    • Mitochondrial urea cycle in a generic diatom cell and the potential fates of urea cycle intermediates
      Mitochondrial urea cycle in a generic diatom cell and the potential fates of urea cycle intermediates [92]

    Urea cycle

    A feature of diatoms is the

    metazoans which appeared several hundreds of millions of years before the diatoms. Their study demonstrated that while diatoms and animals use the urea cycle for different ends, they are seen to be evolutionarily linked in such a way that animals and plants are not.[93]

    While often overlooked in photosynthetic organisms, the

    chlorophytes, also have acquired a mitochondrial urea transporter and, in fact, based on bioinformatics, a complete mitochondrial GS-GOGAT cycle has been hypothesised.[95][92]

    Other

    Diatoms are mainly photosynthetic; however a few are obligate

    heterotrophs and can live in the absence of light provided an appropriate organic carbon source is available.[98][99]

    Photosynthetic diatoms that find themselves in an environment absent of oxygen and/or sunlight can switch to anaerobic respiration known as nitrate respiration (DNRA), and stay dormant for up till months and decades.[100][101]

    Major

    beta-carotene, fucoxanthin, diatoxanthin and diadinoxanthin.[15]

    Taxonomy

    Light microscopy of several species of living freshwater diatoms
    Centric diatom
    Linked diatoms
    Thalassiosirales
    Stephanodiscus hantzschii
    Coscinodiscophyceae
    Isthmia nervosaIsthmia nervosa
    Coscinodiscophyceae
    Odontella aurita
    Main article: Taxonomy of diatoms

    Diatoms belong to a large group of protists, many of which contain plastids rich in chlorophylls a and c. The group has been variously referred to as

    kingdom
    , or something intermediate to those. Consequently, diatoms are ranked anywhere from a class, usually called Diatomophyceae or Bacillariophyceae, to a division (=phylum), usually called Bacillariophyta, with corresponding changes in the ranks of their subgroups.

    Genera and species

    An estimated 20,000

    extant diatom species are believed to exist, of which around 12,000 have been named to date according to Guiry, 2012[102] (other sources give a wider range of estimates[15][103][104][105]). Around 1,000–1,300 diatom genera have been described, both extant and fossil,[106][107] of which some 250–300 exist only as fossils.[108]

    Classes and orders

    For many years the diatoms—treated either as a class (Bacillariophyceae) or a phylum (Bacillariophyta)—were divided into just 2 orders, corresponding to the centric and the pennate diatoms (

    Centrales and Pennales). This classification was extensively overhauled by Round, Crawford and Mann in 1990 who treated the diatoms at a higher rank (division, corresponding to phylum in zoological classification), and promoted the major classification units to classes, maintaining the centric diatoms as a single class Coscinodiscophyceae, but splitting the former pennate diatoms into 2 separate classes, Fragilariophyceae
    and Bacillariophyceae (the latter older name retained but with an emended definition), between them encompassing 45 orders, the majority of them new.

    Today (writing at mid 2020) it is recognised that the 1990 system of Round et al. is in need of revision with the advent of newer molecular work, however the best system to replace it is unclear, and current systems in widespread use such as AlgaeBase, the World Register of Marine Species and its contributing database DiatomBase, and the system for "all life" represented in Ruggiero et al., 2015, all retain the Round et al. treatment as their basis, albeit with diatoms as a whole treated as a class rather than division/phylum, and Round et al.'s classes reduced to subclasses, for better agreement with the treatment of phylogenetically adjacent groups and their containing taxa. (For references refer the individual sections below).

    One proposal, by Linda Medlin and co-workers commencing in 2004, is for some of the centric diatom orders considered more closely related to the pennates to be split off as a new class, Mediophyceae, itself more closely aligned with the pennate diatoms than the remaining centrics. This hypothesis—later designated the Coscinodiscophyceae-Mediophyceae-Bacillariophyceae, or Coscinodiscophyceae+(Mediophyceae+Bacillariophyceae) (CMB) hypothesis—has been accepted by D.G. Mann among others, who uses it as the basis for the classification of diatoms as presented in Adl. et al.'s series of syntheses (2005, 2012, 2019), and also in the Bacillariophyta chapter of the 2017 Handbook of the Protists edited by Archibald et al., with some modifications reflecting the apparent non-monophyly of Medlin et al. original "Coscinodiscophyceae". Meanwhile, a group led by E.C. Theriot favours a different hypothesis of phylogeny, which has been termed the structural gradation hypothesis (SGH) and does not recognise the Mediophyceae as a monophyletic group, while another analysis, that of Parks et al., 2018, finds that the radial centric diatoms (Medlin et al.'s Coscinodiscophyceae) are not monophyletic, but supports the monophyly of Mediophyceae minus Attheya, which is an anomalous genus. Discussion of the relative merits of these conflicting schemes continues by the various parties involved.[109][110][111][112]

    Adl et al., 2019 treatment

    In 2019, Adl et al.[113] presented the following classification of diatoms, while noting: "This revision reflects numerous advances in the phylogeny of the diatoms over the last decade. Due to our poor taxon sampling outside of the Mediophyceae and pennate diatoms, and the known and anticipated diversity of all diatoms, many clades appear at a high classification level (and the higher level classification is rather flat)." This classification treats diatoms as a phylum (Diatomeae/Bacillariophyta), accepts the class Mediophyceae of Medlin and co-workers, introduces new subphyla and classes for a number of otherwise isolated genera, and re-ranks a number of previously established taxa as subclasses, but does not list orders or families. Inferred ranks have been added for clarity (Adl. et al. do not use ranks, but the intended ones in this portion of the classification are apparent from the choice of endings used, within the system of botanical nomenclature employed).

    • Clade
      Diatomista
      Derelle et al. 2016, emend. Cavalier-Smith 2017 (diatoms plus a subset of other ochrophyte groups)
      • Phylum Diatomeae Dumortier 1821 [=
        Bacillariophyta
        Haeckel 1878] (diatoms)
        • Subphylum Leptocylindrophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019
        • Subphylum Ellerbeckiophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019 (Ellerbeckia)
        • Subphylum Probosciophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019 (Proboscia)
        • Subphylum Melosirophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019 (Aulacoseira, Melosira, Hyalodiscus, Stephanopyxis, Paralia, Endictya)
        • Subphylum Coscinodiscophytina Medlin & Kaczmarska 2004, emend. (Actinoptychus, Coscinodiscus, Actinocyclus, Asteromphalus, Aulacodiscus, Stellarima)
        • Subphylum Rhizosoleniophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019 (Guinardia, Rhizosolenia, Pseudosolenia)
        • Subphylum Arachnoidiscophytina D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019 (Arachnoidiscus)
        • Subphylum Bacillariophytina Medlin & Kaczmarska 2004, emend.
          • Class Mediophyceae Jouse & Proshkina-Lavrenko in Medlin & Kaczmarska 2004
            • Subclass Chaetocerotophycidae Round & R.M. Crawford in Round et al. 1990, emend.
            • Subclass Lithodesmiophycidae Round & R.M. Crawford in Round et al. 1990, emend.
            • Subclass Thalassiosirophycidae Round & R.M. Crawford in Round et al. 1990
            • Subclass Cymatosirophycidae Round & R.M. Crawford in Round et al. 1990
            • Subclass Odontellophycidae D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019
            • Subclass Chrysanthemodiscophycidae D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019
          • Class Biddulphiophyceae D.G. Mann in Adl et al. 2019
            • Subclass Biddulphiophycidae Round and R.M. Crawford in Round et al. 1990, emend.
            • Biddulphiophyceae incertae sedis (Attheya)
          • Class
            Bacillariophyceae
            Haeckel 1878, emend.
            • Bacillariophyceae incertae sedis (Striatellaceae)
            • Subclass Urneidophycidae Medlin 2016
            • Subclass Fragilariophycidae Round in Round, Crawford & Mann 1990, emend.
            • Subclass Bacillariophycidae D.G. Mann in Round, Crawford & Mann 1990, emend.

    See taxonomy of diatoms for more details.

    Gallery

    • Scanning electron microscope images
    • Diatom Surirella spiralis
      Diatom Surirella spiralis
    • Diatoms Thalassiosira sp. on a membrane filter, pore size 0.4 μm.
      Diatoms Thalassiosira sp. on a membrane filter, pore size 0.4 μm.
    • Diatom Paralia sulcata.
      Diatom Paralia sulcata.
    • Diatom Achanthes trinodis
      Diatom Achanthes trinodis
    External videos
    video icon Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies – Journey to the Microcosmos:

    Three diatom species were sent to the

    microfluidics method.[114]

    Evolution and fossil record

    Origin

    Heterokont chloroplasts appear to derive from those of red algae, rather than directly from prokaryotes as occurred in plants. This suggests they had a more recent origin than many other algae. However, fossil evidence is scant, and only with the evolution of the diatoms themselves do the heterokonts make a serious impression on the fossil record.

    Earliest fossils

    The earliest known fossil diatoms date from the early

    cryptic.[118] Since the advent of silicification, diatoms have made a significant impression on the fossil record, with major fossil deposits found as far back as the early Cretaceous, and with some rocks such as diatomaceous earth
    , being composed almost entirely of them.

    Relation to grasslands

    The expansion of

    grasses during the Miocene is believed to have increased the flux of soluble silicon to the oceans, and it has been argued that this promoted the diatoms during the Cenozoic era.[119][120] Recent work suggests that diatom success is decoupled from the evolution of grasses, although both diatom and grassland diversity increased strongly from the middle Miocene.[121]

    Relation to climate

    Diatom diversity over the Cenozoic has been very sensitive to global temperature, particularly to the equator-pole temperature gradient. Warmer oceans, particularly warmer polar regions, have in the past been shown to have had substantially lower diatom diversity. Future warm oceans with enhanced polar warming, as projected in global-warming scenarios,[122] could thus in theory result in a significant loss of diatom diversity, although from current knowledge it is impossible to say if this would occur rapidly or only over many tens of thousands of years.[121]

    Method of investigation

    The fossil record of diatoms has largely been established through the recovery of their siliceous

    Pacific), diatom-based age estimates may be resolved to within <100,000 years, although typical age resolution for Cenozoic
    diatom assemblages is several hundred thousand years.

    Diatoms preserved in lake sediments are widely used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions of Quaternary climate, especially for closed-basin lakes which experience fluctuations in water depth and salinity.

    Isotope records

    Intricate silicate (glass) shell, 32-40 million years old, of a diatom microfossil
    Further information:
    microfossils

    When diatoms die their shells (

    last interglacial period. Peaks in opal productivity in the marine isotope stage are associated with the breakdown of the regional halocline stratification and increased nutrient supply to the photic zone.[125]

    The initial development of the halocline and

    late Quaternary at glacial terminations and during the early part of interglacials.[131][132][133][134][135][125]

    Diversification

    The Cretaceous record of diatoms is limited, but recent studies reveal a progressive diversification of diatom types. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which in the oceans dramatically affected organisms with calcareous skeletons, appears to have had relatively little impact on diatom evolution.[136]

    Turnover

    Although no mass extinctions of marine diatoms have been observed during the Cenozoic, times of relatively rapid evolutionary turnover in marine diatom species assemblages occurred near the Paleocene–Eocene boundary,[137] and at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary.[138] Further turnover of assemblages took place at various times between the middle Miocene and late Pliocene,[139] in response to progressive cooling of polar regions and the development of more endemic diatom assemblages.

    A global trend toward more delicate diatom frustules has been noted from the Oligocene to the Quaternary.[123] This coincides with an increasingly more vigorous circulation of the ocean's surface and deep waters brought about by increasing latitudinal thermal gradients at the onset of major ice sheet expansion on Antarctica and progressive cooling through the Neogene and Quaternary towards a bipolar glaciated world. This caused diatoms to take in less silica for the formation of their frustules. Increased mixing of the oceans renews silica and other nutrients necessary for diatom growth in surface waters, especially in regions of coastal and oceanic upwelling.

    Genetics

    Phaeodactylum tricornutum is widely used as a model organism

    Expressed sequence tagging

    In 2002, the first insights into the properties of the

    Cyanidioschyzon merolae, and the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana.[142] The diatom EST database now consists of over 200,000 ESTs from P. tricornutum (16 libraries) and T. pseudonana (7 libraries) cells grown in a range of different conditions, many of which correspond to different abiotic stresses.[143]

    Genome sequencing

    Thalassiosira pseudonana was the first eukaryotic marine phytoplankton to have its genome sequenced

    In 2004, the entire

    transposable elements, the Diatom Copia-like retrotransposons (or CoDis), has been significantly amplified in the P. tricornutum genome with respect to T. pseudonana, constituting 5.8 and 1% of the respective genomes.[147]

    Endosymbiotic gene transfer

    Diatom genomics brought much information about the extent and dynamics of the endosymbiotic

    endosymbiosis first with a green algae, followed by a second one with a red algae that conserved the genomic footprints of the previous but displaced the green plastid.[148]
    However, phylogenomic analyses of diatom proteomes and chromalveolate evolutionary history will likely take advantage of complementary genomic data from under-sequenced lineages such as red algae.

    Horizontal gene transfer

    In addition to EGT, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can occur independently of an endosymbiotic event. The publication of the P. tricornutum genome reported that at least 587 P. tricornutum genes appear to be most closely related to bacterial genes, accounting for more than 5% of the P. tricornutum proteome. About half of these are also found in the T. pseudonana genome, attesting their ancient incorporation in the diatom lineage.[145]

    Genetic engineering

    To understand the biological mechanisms which underlie the great importance of diatoms in geochemical cycles, scientists have used the Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira spp. species as model organisms since the 90's.[149] Few molecular biology tools are currently available to generate mutants or transgenic lines :

    biolistic method[150] or transkingdom bacterial conjugation[151] (with 10−6 and 10−4 yield respectively[150][151]), and other classical transfection methods such as electroporation or use of PEG have been reported to provide results with lower efficiencies.[151]

    Transfected plasmids can be either randomly integrated into the diatom's chromosomes or maintained as stable circular

    episomes (thanks to the CEN6-ARSH4-HIS3 yeast centromeric sequence[151]). The phleomycin/zeocin resistance gene Sh Ble is commonly used as a selection marker,[149][152] and various transgenes have been successfully introduced and expressed in diatoms with stable transmissions through generations,[151][152] or with the possibility to remove it.[152]

    Furthermore, these systems now allow the use of the CRISPR-Cas genome edition tool, leading to a fast production of functional knock-out mutants[152][153] and a more accurate comprehension of the diatoms' cellular processes.

    Human uses

    • Diatomaceous earth consisting of centric (radially symmetric) and pennate (bilaterally symmetric) diatoms suspended in water. (click 3 times to fully enlarge)
      Diatomaceous earth consisting of centric (radially symmetric) and pennate (bilaterally symmetric) diatoms suspended in water.
      (click 3 times to fully enlarge)

    Paleontology

    Decomposition and decay of diatoms leads to

    inorganic (in the form of silicates) sediment, the inorganic component of which can lead to a method of analyzing past marine environments by corings of ocean floors or bay muds, since the inorganic matter is embedded in deposition of clays and silts and forms a permanent geological record of such marine strata (see siliceous ooze
    ).

    Industrial

    Diatoms, and their shells (frustules) as

    diatomite or diatomaceous earth, are important industrial resources used for fine polishing and liquid filtration. The complex structure of their microscopic shells has been proposed as a material for nanotechnology.[154]

    Diatomite is considered to be a natural nano material and has many uses and applications such as: production of various ceramic products, construction ceramics, refractory ceramics, special oxide ceramics, for production of humidity control materials, used as filtration material, material in the cement production industry, initial material for production of prolonged-release drug carriers, absorption material in an industrial scale, production of porous ceramics, glass industry, used as catalyst support, as a filler in plastics and paints, purification of industrial waters, pesticide holder, as well as for improving the physical and chemical characteristics of certain soils, and other uses.[155][156][157]

    Diatoms are also used to help determine the origin of materials containing them, including seawater.

    Nanotechnology

    The deposition of silica by diatoms may also prove to be of utility to

    artificial selection procedure, diatoms that produce valves of particular shapes and sizes might be evolved for cultivation in chemostat cultures to mass-produce nanoscale components.[159] It has also been proposed that diatoms could be used as a component of solar cells by substituting photosensitive titanium dioxide for the silicon dioxide that diatoms normally use to create their cell walls.[160] Diatom biofuel producing solar panels have also been proposed.[161]

    Forensic

    The main goal of diatom analysis in

    forensics is to differentiate a death by submersion from a post-mortem immersion of a body in water. Laboratory tests may reveal the presence of diatoms in the body. Since the silica-based skeletons of diatoms do not readily decay, they can sometimes be detected even in heavily decomposed bodies. As they do not occur naturally in the body, if laboratory tests show diatoms in the corpse that are of the same species found in the water where the body was recovered, then it may be good evidence of drowning as the cause of death. The blend of diatom species found in a corpse may be the same or different from the surrounding water, indicating whether the victim drowned in the same site in which the body was found.[162]

    History of discovery

    Tabellaria is a genus of freshwater diatoms, cuboid in shape with frustules (siliceous cell walls) attached at the corners so the colonies assume a zigzag shape.

    The first illustrations of diatoms are found in an article from 1703 in Transactions of the Royal Society showing unmistakable drawings of Tabellaria.[163] Although the publication was authored by an unnamed English gentleman, there is recent evidence that he was Charles King of Staffordshire.[163][164] It is only 80 years later that we find the first formally identified diatom, the colonial Bacillaria paxillifera, discovered and described in 1783 by Danish naturalist Otto Friedrich Müller.[163] Like many others after him, he wrongly thought that it was an animal due to its ability to move. Even Charles Darwin saw diatom remains in dust whilst in the Cape Verde Islands, although he was not sure what they were. It was only later that they were identified for him as siliceous polygastrics. The infusoria that Darwin later noted in the face paint of Fueguinos, native inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego in the southern end of South America, were later identified in the same way. During his lifetime, the siliceous polygastrics were clarified as belonging to the Diatomaceae, and Darwin struggled to understand the reasons underpinning their beauty. He exchanged opinions with the noted cryptogamist G. H. K. Thwaites on the topic. In the fourth edition of On the Origin of Species he stated that "Few objects are more beautiful than the minute siliceous cases of the diatomaceae: were these created that they might be examined and admired under the high powers of the microscope"? and reasoned that their exquisite morphologies must have functional underpinnings rather than having been created purely for humans to admire.[165]

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ From Greek: διατομή, romanized: diatomé, "a cutting through, a severance",[6] from Greek: διάτομος, romanized: diátomos, "cut in half, divided equally" [7] from Greek: διατέμνω, romanized: diatémno, "to cut in twain".[8][9]: 718 

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