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Coexistence of Dominant Marine Phytoplankton Sustained by Nutrient Specialization

Published:2023-08-17 Issue:4 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Masuda Takako¹²^ORCID,Inomura Keisuke³^ORCID,Mareš Jan²⁴⁵^ORCID,Kodama Taketoshi¹,Shiozaki Takuhei¹,Matsui Takato⁶,Suzuki Koji⁶^ORCID,Takeda Shigenobu¹,Deutsch Curtis⁷,Prášil Ondřej²,Furuya Ken¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Aquatic Bioscience, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

2. Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia

3. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA

4. Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budejovice, Czechia

5. Department of Botany, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budejovice, Czechia

6. Graduate School of Environmental Science/Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

7. Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Abstract

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.

Funder

GACR

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Simons Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.04000-22

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