Species details
- Nitzschia closterium f. minutissima : Allen e Nelson (1910)
Solitary or joined in colonies. The frustule can various shapes from fusiform to triradiate and oval depending on environmental conditions.
- Ovate cells: apical axis: from 8 to 8.5 µm
- Ovate cells: transapical axis: from 3 to 3.5 µm
- Fusiform cells: apical axis: from 25 to 35 µm
Coastal waters.
Distribution: as Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Europe: France (Rech et al., 2005), Germany (Toepel et al., 2005); North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary and McLachlan, 2004).
One of the few Bacillariophyceae of which the genome has been sequenced.
Toxicity:Not reported.
Resistence Stages:Not reported.
Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St., Lawrence. Phycologia 43, Kim K.Y., Garbary D.J., McLachlan J.L., 2004, 311-328.
Combination of flow cytometry and single cell absorption spectroscopy to study the phytoplankton structure and to calculate the chi a specific absorption coefficients at the taxon level., Journal of Phycology 2005:, Toepel J., Langner U., Wilhelm C., 2005, 1099-1109
Long-term acclimation to UV radiation: effects on growth, photosynthesis and carbonic anhydrase activity in marine diatoms., Botanica Marina 48, Rech M., Mouget, J.-L. Morant-Manceau, Rosa P., Tremblin G., 2005, 407-420
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