Nature Communications (Jan 2023)
Viral infection switches the balance between bacterial and eukaryotic recyclers of organic matter during coccolithophore blooms
- Flora Vincent,
- Matti Gralka,
- Guy Schleyer,
- Daniella Schatz,
- Miguel Cabrera-Brufau,
- Constanze Kuhlisch,
- Andreas Sichert,
- Silvia Vidal-Melgosa,
- Kyle Mayers,
- Noa Barak-Gavish,
- J. Michel Flores,
- Marta Masdeu-Navarro,
- Jorun Karin Egge,
- Aud Larsen,
- Jan-Hendrik Hehemann,
- Celia Marrasé,
- Rafel Simó,
- Otto X. Cordero,
- Assaf Vardi
Affiliations
- Flora Vincent
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Matti Gralka
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Guy Schleyer
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Daniella Schatz
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Miguel Cabrera-Brufau
- Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
- Constanze Kuhlisch
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Andreas Sichert
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Silvia Vidal-Melgosa
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Kyle Mayers
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
- Noa Barak-Gavish
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- J. Michel Flores
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Marta Masdeu-Navarro
- Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
- Jorun Karin Egge
- Department of Biological Sciences (BIO), University of Bergen
- Aud Larsen
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
- Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Celia Marrasé
- Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
- Rafel Simó
- Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC
- Otto X. Cordero
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Assaf Vardi
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36049-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 17
Abstract
Algal blooms are hotspots of marine primary production that play central roles in microbial ecology and global elemental cycling. Here, the authors show how bloom termination by viral infection can shift the balance between eukaryotic and prokaryotic recyclers of phytoplankton biomass.
