April 23, 2018
Our new publication led by former graduate student Natalie Cohen (now a post-doctoral fellow at WHOI) was just published in Limnology and Oceanography. In this study we examine the iron quotas of 11 diatoms to determine whether there is a systematic difference in iron storage capacities between diatoms that contain the protein ferritin and those that do not. It appears that ferritin may be performing multiple functional roles that are independent of diatom phylogeny.
Iron storage capacities and associated ferritin gene expression among marine diatoms
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