image: Elaborate diatom cell walls made of glass, as viewed in the electron microscope. This image relates to an article that appeared in the June 26, 2009 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. A. Moustafa of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and colleagues was titled, "Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of C. Bowler and K. Osada]