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Bacteria and silica cycling

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Figure 1: The case of the disappearing diatoms — an example of Bidle and Azam's experiments1.
Figure 2: Fortress Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, the shells of which dominate the diatom ooze under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

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Smetacek, V. Bacteria and silica cycling. Nature 397, 475–476 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/17219

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