ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017
Ecological Stoichiometry beyond Redfield: An Ionomic Perspective on Elemental Homeostasis.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ecological Stoichiometric Relationships Among Wood-Feeding Insects, Host Trees, and Soils in an Urban Tropical Ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Early-life dentine-based elemental biodynamics and cord blood telomere length.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Phosphate availability modulates elemental homeostasis in rainbow trout hepatocytes: compositional ionomics illuminates system-wide adjustments.Metallomics : integrated biometal science · 2026Article
- Rule-out test for autism using machine-learning analysis of molecular temporal dynamics in hair - a multicenter study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Dysregulation of hair-strand-based elemental biodynamics in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.EBioMedicine · 2025Article
- Variability of the Ionome of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) and Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in a Dutch National Park, with Implications for Biomonitoring.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Ionomic Variation Among Tissues in Fallow Deer (Dama dama) by Sex and Age.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Gene regulation and ionome homeostasis in rice plants in response to arsenite stress: potential connection between transcriptomics and ionomics.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2023Article
- The elements of life: A biocentric tour of the periodic table.Advances in microbial physiology · 2023Article
- Adaptation to a limiting element involves mitigation of multiple elemental imbalances.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Recent and ancient evolutionary events shaped plant elemental composition of edaphic endemics: a phylogeny-wide analysis of Iberian gypsum plants.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
- Stoichiometric niche, nutrient partitioning and resource allocation in a solitary bee are sex-specific and phosphorous is allocated mainly to the cocoon.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Body Size Plasticity of Weevil Larvae (Curculio davidi) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Its Stoichiometric Relationship With Different Hosts.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2021Article
- Differential responses of macroinvertebrate ionomes across experimental N:P gradients in detritus-based headwater streams.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Multielemental Stoichiometry in Plant Organs: A Case Study With the Alpine HerbFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Does differential iron supply to algae affect Daphnia life history? An ionome-wide study.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Article
- What intrinsic and extrinsic factors explain the stoichiometric diversity of aquatic heterotrophic bacteria?The ISME journal · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Elemental homeostasis has been largely characterized using three important elements that were part of the Redfield ratio (i.e., carbon: nitrogen: phosphorus). These efforts have revealed substantial diversity in homeostasis among taxonomic groups and even within populations. Understanding the evolutionary basis, and ecological consequences of such diversity is a central challenge. Here, we propose that a more complete understanding of homeostasis necessitates the consideration of other elements beyond C, N, and P. Specifically, we posit that physiological complexity underlying maintenance of elemental homeostasis along a single elemental axis impacts processing of other elements, thus altering elemental homeostasis along other axes. Indeed, transcriptomic studies in a wide variety of organisms have found that individuals differentially express significant proportions of the genome in response to variability in supply stoichiometry in order to maintain varying levels of homeostasis. We review the literature from the emergent field of ionomics that has established the consequences of such physiological trade-offs on the content of the entire suite of elements in an individual. Further, we present experimental data on bacteria exhibiting divergent phosphorus homeostasis phenotypes demonstrating the fundamental interconnectedness among elemental quotas. These observations suggest that physiological adjustments can lead to unexpected patterns in biomass stoichiometry, such as correlated changes among suites of non-limiting microelements in response to limitation by macroelements. Including the entire suite of elements that comprise biomass will foster improved quantitative understanding of the links between chemical cycles and the physiology of organisms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.