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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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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