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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36049-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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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.