ArticleMicrobial ecology2016
Searching for a Mate: Pheromone-Directed Movement of the Benthic Diatom Seminavis robusta.
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- Dynamic switching of cell-substrate contact sites allows gliding diatoms to modulate the curvature of their paths.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Recent Advances in Understanding the Sex Pheromone-Mediated Communication of Diatoms.ChemPlusChem · 2025Review
- Functional morphology of gliding motility in benthic diatoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Pheromone Mediated Sexual Reproduction of Pennate Diatom Cylindrotheca closterium.Journal of chemical ecology · 2021Article
- Asymmetric mating behavior of isogamous budding yeast.Science advances · 2021Article
- The Seminavis robusta genome provides insights into the evolutionary adaptations of benthic diatoms.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Structural Identification, Synthesis and Biological Activity of Two Volatile Cyclic Dipeptides in a Terrestrial Vertebrate.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Selective chemoattraction of the benthic diatom Seminavis robusta to phosphate but not to inorganic nitrogen sources contributes to biofilm structuring.MicrobiologyOpen · 2019Article
- Decision-making of the benthic diatom Seminavis robusta searching for inorganic nutrients and pheromones.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Accelerated diversification is related to life history and locomotion in a hyperdiverse lineage of microbial eukaryotes (Diatoms, Bacillariophyta).The New phytologist · 2018Article
- Attraction Pheromone of The Benthic Diatom Seminavis robusta: Studies on Structure-Activity Relationships.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Diatoms are species-rich microalgae that often have a unique life cycle with vegetative cell size reduction followed by size restoration through sexual reproduction of two mating types (MT(+) and MT(-)). In the marine benthic diatom Seminavis robusta, mate-finding is mediated by an L-proline-derived diketopiperazine, a pheromone produced by the attracting mating type (MT(-)). Here, we investigate the movement patterns of cells of the opposite mating type (MT(+)) exposed to a pheromone gradient, using video monitoring and statistical modeling. We report that cells of the migrating mating type (MT(+)) respond to pheromone gradients by simultaneous chemotaxis and chemokinesis. Changes in movement behavior enable MT(+) cells to locate the direction of the pheromone source and to maximize their encounter rate towards it.
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