Chaetoceros socialis
Description
New daughter set created every four weeks
Daughter set……….…25umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….13umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Chitin in diatoms and its association with the cell wall (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2708456/)
Drag reducing properties of microalgal exopolymers (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bit.260330506)