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Diatoms, we love ‘em...

This blog is dedicated to our V Factor team to share some of their experiences (the good, the bad, the ugly and the sometimes plain weird) as our project and work progresses.
The posts that follow are a forum for informal exchange to accompany our work and provide gentle insight into the V Factor initiative and our current project collaboration with the Genomics and Microbial Biodiversity Section: 'Making the invisible visible; Thomas Comber and his diatom specimens'

We hope you will enjoy finding out more…

Forget the Rainforest, Save the Diatoms!

It’s a far stretch from our imaginations to see a campaign by WWF to ‘Save the diatoms’ in place of the ever so cute and much adored panda, for example, however much credit is due to these tiny photosynthesising single-celled organisms as they account for over 1/4 of the world’s oxygen alone. (One study showed that: tropical rainforest fix c. 17.8%; savannas 16.8%, the cultivated areas: 8%; diatoms 23.5%).

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