This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...

Murphy et al. show that the amino acid glutamate acts as an extracellular signalling molecule in unicellular eukaryotes, which likely facilitated the development of complex glutamate-dependent cell–ce...

Phytoplankton are responsible for half of the global photosynthesis and form vast blooms in aquatic ecosystems. Bloom demise fuels marine microbial li…