Coexistence of Dominant Marine Phytoplankton Sustained by Nutrient Specialization

0578609 - MBÚ 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Masuda, Takako - Inomura, K. - Mareš, Jan - Kodama, T. - Shiozaki, T. - Matsui, T. - Suzuki, K. - Takeda, S. - Deutsch, C. - Prášil, Ondřej - Furuya, K.
Coexistence of Dominant Marine Phytoplankton Sustained by Nutrient Specialization.
Microbiology Spectrum. Roč. 11, č. 4 (2023), č. článku e04000-22. ISSN 2165-0497. E-ISSN 2165-0497
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-17627S
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
Keywords : atlantic time-series * amino-acid-uptake * sargasso sea * n-2 fixation * prochlorococcus cyanobacteria * resource competition * synechococcus * distributions * iron * picoplankton * nutrient specialization * Prochlorococcus * Synechococcus
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 3.7, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04000-22

Our manuscript addresses the following fundamental question in microbial ecology: how do different plankton using the same essential nutrients coexist? Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the two dominant picocyanobacteria in the low-nutrient surface waters of the subtropical ocean, which support a significant amount of marine primary production. The geographical distributions of these two organisms are largely overlapping, but the basis for their coexistence in these biomes remains unclear.
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