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Special volume: Planet Ocean. Scientia Marina 80(Suppl.1) 2016.-- 8 pages, 6 figures[EN] Minidiscus comicus is a marine centric diatom that has cells with diameters as small as 1.9 μm, which brings it close to the lower limit of diatom cell size and also near to the lower limit of photosynthetic eukaryote cells. One of the questions that this raises is whether the cycle of size decline and size restoration used by most diatoms to time their life cycle can operate in such small cells. In samples collected from the western Mediterranean during 2009, M. comicus cells were found with diameters ranging from 1.9 to 6.0 μm. The larger cells were initial cells after size restoration, and these still had the valves of their parent cells attached, making it possible to determine the diameter of the threshold below which size restoration could be induced (3.1 μm). During size decline, M. comicus cell shape changed from discoid to spherical. This adaptation helped to reduce and even halt the rate of cell volume decrease, allowing cells to continue to use diameter decline as a clocking mechanism. The results show how adaptable the diatom cell wall can be, in spite of its rigid appearance[ES] Minidiscus comicus es una diatomea céntrica marina cuyas células pueden alcanzar diámetros mínimos de tan solo 1.9 μm, lo que las acerca al límite inferior de tamaño de las células de diatomeas y en general de las células eucariotas fotosintéticas. Una de las preguntas que surgen es si el ciclo de disminución y restauración de tamaño usado por la mayoría de las diatomeas para medir los tiempos de su ciclo de vida pueda realizarse en estas pequeñas células. En muestras del Mediterráneo occidental tomadas durante 2009, las células de M. comicus presentaron diámetros de 1.9 a 6.0 μm. Las células mayores eran células iniciales después de la restauración de tamaño y aún tenían pegadas las valvas de las células progenitoras, lo cual hace posible determinar el umbral de diámetro que puede inducir a la restauración (3.1 µm). Se observó que al disminuir el tamaño, la forma de la célula cambiaba de discoidea a esférica. Esta adaptación ayuda a reducir e incluso detiene la tasa de disminución del volumen de la célula, lo que permite a las células continuar usando la disminución del diámetro como un mecanismo cronometrador. Los resultados muestran cuán adaptable puede ser la pared celular de las diatomeas, a pesar de su rígida aparienciaThis work was supported by the projects FAMOSO (CTM2008-06261-C03), JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 26291085 and 15K14784 and Open Partnership Joint Projects of JSPS Bilateral Joint Research ProjectsPeer Reviewe

Morphological adaptations to small size in the marine diatom <em>Minidiscus comicus</em>