The multicellular nature of filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

A Herrero, J Stavans, E Flores - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, play a key role in the cycling of carbon
and nitrogen in the biosphere, and have had a large impact on the evolution of life and the …

Cyanobacterial heterocysts

K Kumar, RA Mella-Herrera… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2010‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Many multicellular cyanobacteria produce specialized nitrogen-fixing heterocysts. During
diazotrophic growth of the model organism Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120, a …

Chemotaxis increases metabolic exchanges between marine picophytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria

JB Raina, M Giardina, DR Brumley, PL Clode… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Behaviours such as chemotaxis can facilitate metabolic exchanges between phytoplankton
and heterotrophic bacteria, which ultimately regulate oceanic productivity and …

Trichodesmium– a widespread marine cyanobacterium with unusual nitrogen fixation properties

B Bergman, G Sandh, S Lin, J Larsson… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
The last several decades have witnessed dramatic advances in unfolding the diversity and
commonality of oceanic diazotrophs and their N2-fixing potential. More recently, substantial …

Imaging mass spectrometry in microbiology

JD Watrous, PC Dorrestein - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011‏ - nature.com
Imaging mass spectrometry tools allow the two-dimensional visualization of the distribution
of trace metals, metabolites, surface lipids, peptides and proteins directly from biological …

N ano SIMS: Technical aspects and applications in cosmochemistry and biological geochemistry

P Hoppe, S Cohen, A Meibom - … and Geoanalytical Research, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The N ano SIMS ion probe is a new‐generation SIMS instrument, characterised by superior
spatial resolution, high sensitivity and multi‐collection capability. Isotope studies of certain …

A single-cell view on the ecophysiology of anaerobic phototrophic bacteria

N Musat, H Halm, B Winterholler, P Hoppe… - Proceedings of the …, 2008‏ - pnas.org
Quantitative information on the ecophysiology of individual microorganisms is generally
limited because it is difficult to assign specific metabolic activities to identified single cells …

[HTML][HTML] Succession and toxicity of Microcystis and Anabaena (Dolichospermum) blooms are controlled by nutrient-dependent allelopathic interactions

MA Chia, JG Jankowiak, BJ Kramer, JA Goleski… - Harmful algae, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Microcystis and Anabaena (Dolichospermum) are among the most toxic
cyanobacterial genera and often succeed each other during harmful algal blooms. The role …

Categorizing cells on the basis of their chemical profiles: progress in single-cell mass spectrometry

TJ Comi, TD Do, SS Rubakhin… - Journal of the American …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The chemical differences between individual cells within large cellular populations provide
unique information on organisms' homeostasis and the development of diseased states …

Advances in imaging secondary ion mass spectrometry for biological samples

SG Boxer, ML Kraft, PK Weber - Annual review of biophysics, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
Imaging mass spectrometry combines the power of mass spectrometry to identify complex
molecules based on mass with sample imaging. Recent advances in secondary ion mass …