ReviewScience advances2016
Why marine phytoplankton calcify.
Review in Science advances, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.
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51 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Biomass and coccolith productions in Chrysotila sp. in high density cultivation system.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Sodium and potassium analysis of individual coccoliths by secondary ion mass spectrometry.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Role of Confinement in Biomineralization.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Architecture and energy transfer of coccolithophore photosystem I with a huge light-harvesting antenna system.Science advances · 2025Article
- 'Ghost' fossils of early coccolithophores point to a Triassic diversification of marine calcifying organisms.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Costs and benefits of phytoplankton motility.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Dynamic change of calcium-rich compartments during coccolithophore biomineralization.Science advances · 2025Article
- Life cycle and morphogenetic differentiation in heteromorphic cell types of a cosmopolitan marine microalga.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Uncertain fate of pelagic calcifying protists: a cellular perspective on a changing ocean.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Hard shell, soft blue-green core: Ecology, processes, and modern applications of calcification in terrestrial cyanobacteria.iScience · 2024Review
- Genome ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic PbEnvironmental science & technology · 2024Article
- The solubility product controls the rate of calcite dissolution in pure water and seawater.Chemical science · 2024Article
- Marine microfossils: Tiny archives of ocean changes through deep time.AIMS microbiology · 2024Review
- Different photosynthetic responses of haploid and diploid Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae) to high light and ultraviolet radiation.Bioresources and bioprocessing · 2023Article
- Halide-assisted differential growth of chiral nanoparticles with threefold rotational symmetry.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Calcifying marine phytoplankton-coccolithophores- are some of the most successful yet enigmatic organisms in the ocean and are at risk from global change. To better understand how they will be affected, we need to know "why" coccolithophores calcify. We review coccolithophorid evolutionary history and cell biology as well as insights from recent experiments to provide a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of calcification. We conclude that calcification has high energy demands and that coccolithophores might have calcified initially to reduce grazing pressure but that additional benefits such as protection from photodamage and viral/bacterial attack further explain their high diversity and broad spectrum ecology. The cost-benefit aspect of these traits is illustrated by novel ecosystem modeling, although conclusive observations remain limited. In the future ocean, the trade-off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.
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