Fig. 1 Diatom mitosis and resulting cell diminution. a in Enlarge or die! An auxospore perspective on diatom diversification

Fig. 1 Diatom mitosis and resulting cell diminution. a Schematic representation of stages of mitotic division in a diatom; frustule is shown in long section; different colors represent successive generations of sibling hypovalves. b The theoretical cohort of progeny of one post-