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Articles | Volume 15, issue 16
Articles | Volume 15, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4923-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4923-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 16
Research article
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21 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 21 Aug 2018

Colony formation in Phaeocystis antarctica: connecting molecular mechanisms with iron biogeochemistry

Sara J. Bender, Dawn M. Moran, Matthew R. McIlvin, Hong Zheng, John P. McCrow, Jonathan Badger, Giacomo R. DiTullio, Andrew E. Allen, and Mak A. Saito

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Phaeocystis antarctica is an important phytoplankter of the Antarctic coastal environment where it dominates the early season bloom after sea ice retreat. Iron nutrition was found to be an important factor that results in Phaeocystis colony formation and a large restructuring of the proteome, including changes associated with the flagellate to colonial transition and adaptive responses to iron scarcity. Analysis of Phaeocystis proteins from the Ross Sea revealed the presence of both cell types.
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