The life of diatoms in the world's oceans

EV Armbrust - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Marine diatoms rose to prominence about 100 million years ago and today generate most of
the organic matter that serves as food for life in the sea. They exist in a dilute world where …

Algal blooms in the ocean: hot spots for chemically mediated microbial interactions

C Kuhlisch, A Shemi, N Barak-Gavish… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The cycling of major nutrients in the ocean is affected by large-scale phytoplankton blooms,
which are hot spots of microbial life. Diverse microbial interactions regulate bloom dynamics …

Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

D Faktorová, RER Nisbet, JA Fernández Robledo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Diverse microbial ecosystems underpin life in the sea. Among these microbes are many
unicellular eukaryotes that span the diversity of the eukaryotic tree of life. However, genetic …

Characterization of a Nitric Oxide Synthase from the Plant Kingdom: NO Generation from the Green Alga Ostreococcus tauri Is Light Irradiance and Growth Phase …

N Foresi, N Correa-Aragunde, G Parisi, G Calo… - The Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The search for a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) sequence in the plant kingdom yielded two
sequences from the recently published genomes of two green algae species of the …

Evolution and regulation of nitrogen flux through compartmentalized metabolic networks in a marine diatom

SR Smith, CL Dupont, JK McCarthy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Diatoms outcompete other phytoplankton for nitrate, yet little is known about the
mechanisms underpinning this ability. Genomes and genome-enabled studies have shown …

Programmed cell death in unicellular phytoplankton

KD Bidle - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Unicellular, planktonic, prokaryotic and eukaryotic photoautotrophs (phytoplankton) have an
ancient evolutionary history on Earth during which time they have played key roles in the …

Aerobic bacteria produce nitric oxide via denitrification and promote algal population collapse

A Abada, R Beiralas, D Narvaez, M Sperfeld… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Microbial interactions govern marine biogeochemistry. These interactions are generally
considered to rely on exchange of organic molecules. Here we report on a novel inorganic …

Gene silencing in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

V De Riso, R Raniello, F Maumus… - Nucleic acids …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Diatoms are a major but poorly understood phytoplankton group. The recent completion of
two whole genome sequences has revealed that they contain unique combinations of …

Quorum sensing is a language of chemical signals and plays an ecological role in algal-bacterial interactions

J Zhou, Y Lyu, ML Richlen… - Critical reviews in plant …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Algae are ubiquitous in the marine environment, and the ways in which they interact with
bacteria are of particular interest in the field of marine ecology. The interactions between …

NO synthesis and signaling in plants–where do we stand?

M Moreau, C Lindermayr, J Durner… - Physiologia …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 20 years, nitric oxide (NO) research has generated a lot of interest in various
aspects of plant biology. It is now clear that NO plays a role in a wide range of physiological …