Links
Useful links to English sites:
Wikipedia, Diatom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom
International Society for Diatom Research: http://www.isdr.org/
University College London, Micropalaeontology Unit, Diatoms: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/diatom.html
The Phycology Section: Ecology and Taxonomy of Freshwater Algae, particularly Diatoms: http://diatom.ansp.org/
Databases, Diatom Identification:
Diatoms of the United States: https://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/
Algae World: diatoms: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/algae/diatoms.htm
Introduction to Diatom Identification: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/ADIAC/intro/intro.htm
Useful links to German sites:
Wikipedia, Kieselalgen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieselalgen
Diatomeen – Kurzeinführung: http://www.diatomeen.de/
Diatomeen-Homepage von Dr. phil. nat. E. Alles: http://www.kieselalgen.com/JSIndex.html
Books
The following compilation is a tip to the very extensive literature.
Further references to publications are given in the appropriate place.
Books in English:
The Diatoms: Biology and Morphology of the Genera
F. E. Round; R. M. Crawford; D. G. Mann
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (2007)
The Biology of Diatoms (Botanical Monographs)
Dietrich Werner (Editor)
University of California Press, Berkeley, California (1977)
Identification of Freshwater Diatoms from Live Material
E.J. Cox
Springer (1996)
Algal Culturing Techniques
Robert A. Andersen (Editor)
Academic Press (2005)
Books in German:
Diatomeen im Süßwasser-Benthos von Mitteleuropa : Bestimmungsflora Kieselalgen für die ökologische Praxis;
über 700 der häufigsten Arten und ihre Ökologie
Horst Lange-Bertalot (Editor)
Koeltz Scientific Books
Kieselalgen in Binnengewässern
Lothar Kalbe
VerlagsKG Wolf (2005)
Kieselalgen : Biologie, Baupläne d. Zellwand, Untersuchungsmethoden
Kurt Krammer
Kosmos Verlags-GmbH (1990)
Algenreinkulturen, ihre Herstellung und Erhaltung
E. G. Pringsheim
Jena Fischer (1954)
Articles relating to the homepage:
Harbich, T. (2021), On the Size Sequence of Diatoms in Clonal Chains. In Diatom Morphogenesis (Diatoms: Biology 
and Applications) Vadim V. Annenkov (Editor), Richard Gordon (Series Editor), Joseph Seckbach (Series Editor), Wiley-Scrivener; First published: 29 October 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119488170.ch3
Harbich, T. (2021) Some Observations of Movements of Pennate Diatoms in Cultures and Their Possible Interpretation. In Diatom Gliding Motility (Diatoms: Biology and Applications) S.A. Cohn (Editor), K.M. Manoylov (Editor) and R. Gordon (Series Editor), Wiley-Scrivener, Beverly, MA, USA; First published: 20 July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119526483.ch1
The sections are:
- Kinematics and Analysis of Trajectories in Pennate Diatoms with Almost Straight Raphe along the Apical Axis
- Curvature of the Trajectory at the Reversal Points
- Movement of Diatoms in and on Biofilms
- Movement on the Water Surface
- Formation of flat Colonies in Cymbella lanceolata
Harbich, T. (2023) Pattern Formation in Diatoma vulgaris Colonies - Observations and Description by a Lindenmayer-System. In The Mathematical Biology of Diatoms (Diatoms: Biology and Applications) Janice L. Pappas (Editor), Richard Gordon (Series Editor), Joseph Seckbach (Series Editor), Wiley-Scrivener; Wiley-Scrivener; First published: 21 April 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119751939.ch10
Please also have a look at these publications:
Alicea, B., Gordon, R., Harbich, T., Singh, U., Singh, A., & Varma, V. (2021) Towards a Digital Diatom: image processing and deep learning analysis of Bacillaria paradoxa dynamic morphology. In Diatom Gliding Motility (Diatoms: Biology and Applications) S.A. Cohn (Editor), K.M. Manoylov (Editor) and R. Gordon (Series Editor), Wiley-Scrivener, Beverly, MA, USA; First published: 20 July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119526483.ch10
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.21.885897v2
Gebeshuber, I. C., Zischka, F., Kratochvil, H., Noll, A., Gordon, R., & Harbich, T. (2021), Diatom Triboacoustics. In Diatom Gliding Motility (Diatoms: Biology and Applications) S.A. Cohn (Editor), K.M. Manoylov (Editor) and R. Gordon (Editor), Wiley-Scrivener, Beverly, MA, USA; First published: 20 July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119526483.ch11
Harbich, T. (2023) Modeling the Synchronization of the Movement of Bacillaria paxillifer by a Kuramoto Model with Time Delay. In The Mathematical Biology of Diatoms (Diatoms: Biology and Applications) Janice L. Pappas (Editor), Richard Gordon (Series Editor), Joseph Seckbach (Series Editor), Wiley-Scrivener; Wiley-Scrivener; First published: 21 April 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119751939.ch8