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The 24 pages that link to Diatom, each with the reason it gives.

• BioindicatorBroader topic: Diatom communities respond to water chemistry and are used to assess freshwater quality.

• Marine snowBroader topic: Diatom blooms can generate large quantities of sinking cells and aggregates.

• PhytoplanktonBroader topic: Diatoms are a major phytoplankton group with distinctive glasslike shells.

• Silicon dioxideRelated: Diatoms build biological silica structures that accumulate in sediments.

• ProtistBroader topic: Diatoms are abundant aquatic protists with distinctive silica shells.

• Secondary endosymbiosisBroader topic: Their plastids descend from a red-algal endosymbiont.

• Green algaeCompared with: Diatoms are prominent aquatic photosynthesizers outside the green algal lineage.

• Brown algaeRelated: Diatoms and brown algae are distinct stramenopile groups with some shared evolutionary ancestry.

• StramenopileBroader topic: Diatoms are abundant stramenopile producers and major contributors to aquatic primary production.

• OomyceteRelated: Diatoms share stramenopile ancestry with oomycetes but differ in nutrition and lifestyle.

• DinoflagellateCompared with: Diatoms share aquatic habitats with dinoflagellates but build silica rather than cellulose coverings.

• SAR supergroupBroader topic: Diatoms make up a major share of marine primary production and form distinctive sediments.

• KelpCompared with: Diatoms are microscopic algae rather than the large seaweeds that form kelp forests.

• VarveRelated: Seasonal blooms can add distinctive biological material to lake sediment layers.

• ChertRelated: Their silica shells can contribute to the sediments from which some chert forms.

• ChromalveolataBroader topic: Diatoms show the ecological and evolutionary breadth of a lineage once grouped within Chromalveolata.

• FucoxanthinBroader topic: Diatoms are major marine producers of fucoxanthin beyond brown algae.

• MicropaleontologyBroader topic: Siliceous diatom fossils preserve ecological and environmental signals.

• Siliceous oozeRelated: Diatom frustules supply much of the silica preserved in productive surface waters.

• Golden algaeCompared with: Diatoms share golden pigments and habitats with golden algae but have distinctive silica frustules.

• PaleolimnologyRelated: Diatom assemblages help infer past lake chemistry, nutrients, and ecology.

• ChromistaBroader topic: Diatoms are a major photosynthetic group commonly assigned to Chromista.

• Pluvial lakeRelated: Fossil diatom communities can indicate past lake depth, salinity, and water conditions.

• Yellow-green algaeCompared with: Diatoms are related stramenopiles that commonly contain fucoxanthin, unlike this group.