Architecture and material properties of diatom shells provide effective mechanical protection

By C. Hamm, R. Merkel, Ó. Springer, Piotr Jurkojc, C. Maier, K. Prechtel, V. Smetacek. Nature, 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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Nature’s hierarchical materials (2007, background): “The mechanical protection of diatom cells is suggested to arise from the increased strength of their silica frustules [94].”
Coccolithophores and the biological pump: responses to environmental changes (2004, background): “While the frustules of diatoms appear to serve as an effective mechanical protection against various types of microzooplankton predators (Hamm et al. 2003), the coccosphere of coccolithophores does not seem to provide the same degree of protection (Sikes and Wilbur 1982; Harris 1994).”
The Ecology of Harmful Diatoms (2006, background): “Their frustules also provide mechanical protection against some classes of grazers because exceptional force is required to disrupt them ( Hamm et al. 2003 ).”
The rise of predators (2011, background): “…communities today (e.g., Smetacek, 2001; Tillmann, 2004), and that the primary function of many protistan skeletons seems to be for defense (e.g., Hamm et al., 2003; Tillmann, 2004), it is reasonable to think that mineralized skeletons may have appeared ca. 750 Ma as a response to protistan…”
Why is the Land Green and the Ocean Red (2004, background): “For example, it could be argued that diatoms expanded because of ecological advantages such as the retardation of predation or viral attack conferred by the evolution of the organosilicate frustules (Smetacek 1999; Hamm et al. 2003).”
New trends in marine chemical ecology (2006, background): “It is not surprising that they have developed a range of defense mechanisms including physical (e.g., tough protective silica surfaces as in the planktonic diatoms, Hamm et al. 2003) and chemical defenses to ensure survival.”
Evolutionary Trajectories and Biogeochemical Impacts of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton (2004, background): “The strength and flexibility of diatom frustules makes fracturing them a challenge for invertebrates; in fact, diatoms can pass through a copepod gut intact (Hamm et al. 2003).”