mSystems (Oct 2021)

Lineage-Specific Growth Curves Document Large Differences in Response of Individual Groups of Marine Bacteria to the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls

  • Lívia K. Fecskeová,
  • Kasia Piwosz,
  • Danijela Šantić,
  • Stefanija Šestanović,
  • Ana Vrdoljak Tomaš,
  • Martina Hanusová,
  • Mladen Šolić,
  • Michal Koblížek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00934-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 5

Abstract

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Growth is one of the main manifestations of life. It is assumed generally that bacterial growth is constrained mostly by nutrient availability (bottom-up control) and grazing (top-down control).