References

Links

Useful links to English sites:Link icon

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

 
Databases, Diatom Identification:

Diatoms of the United States: https://www.diatoms.org
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 and a film relating to the homepage:

Harbich, T. (2025). Modeling Properties of Diatoms with Fibonacci Growth Using Lindenmayer Systems. Phycology, 5(2), 20.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9410/5/2/20


Harbich, T. (2021), On the Size Sequence of Diatoms in Clonal Chains. In Diatom Morphogenesis (Diatoms: Biology diatom morphogenesisand 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

 

mathematical biology of diatoms

mathematical biology of diatoms

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

 You can find supplementary information on this paper here.


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

  

diatom gliding motility

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

You can find supplementary information on this paper here.


A remarkable film: 
Pickett-Heaps, Jeremy D. and Pickett-Heaps, Julianne (2003)
Diatoms: Life in Glass Houses
Limnology and Freshwater Biology (2022): http://www.limnolfwbiol.com/index.php/LFWB/article/view/801


A review paper on this film:
Harbich, T., Gordon, R., Cohn, S. A., Ashworth, M. P., Annenkov, V. V., & Goessling, J. W. (2024). “Diatoms: Life in Glass Houses” revisited: Updates and Comments. Limnology and Freshwater Biology, 1454-1470.
http://www.limnolfwbiol.com/index.php/LFWB/article/view/1281 (Download) 


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