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Also, he adds, diatoms are extremely important on an ecological level.
If we could work out how diatoms lay down micro lines of silica, then we may be able to simulate it’.
Plant molecular biologist Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy) explains that molecular phylogeny and morphological studies suggest that diatoms originated ‘probably as the result of a eukaryote being invaded or engulfed by a photosynthetic eukaryote, most probably a red alga’.
In addition, subtle but important changes can be induced in diatoms by varying the amount of silica in their environment or changing the water flow.
Gordon, a keen diatom hobbyist, explained to his audience how diatoms could make a three-dimensional micro- or nanoscale structure for them without them lifting a finger.