Somehow this paper has been largely ignored, but the basic idea has been presented by others as novel, or the idea gets misattributed to someone else. If you're interested in #diatom sex and its evolutionary importance, read and cite this paper.
www.jstor.org/stable/2460887
William M. Lewis, Jr., The Diatom Sex Clock and Its Evolutionary Significance, The American Naturalist, Vol. 123, No. 1 (Jan., 1984), pp. 73-80
