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ArticleCritical reviews in plant sciences2016

Quorum sensing is a language of chemical signals and plays an ecological role in algal-bacterial interactions.

Jin Zhou, Yihua Lyu, Mindy Richlen, Donald M Anderson, Zhonghua Cai

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Article in Critical reviews in plant sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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60citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 198 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jin ZhouThe Division of Ocean Science and Technology, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
Yihua LyuSouth China Sea Environment Monitoring Center, State Oceanic Administration, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China.
Mindy RichlenDepartment of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd., MS 32, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA.
Donald M AndersonDepartment of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd., MS 32, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA.
Zhonghua CaiThe Division of Ocean Science and Technology, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China.
University Town of Shenzhen · CNWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution · USGuangdong Province Environmental Monitoring Center · CN

Funding

WHCOHH: Harmful algal bloom dynamics and epigenetic mechanism of toxin actionP01ES021923 · NIEHS · WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION · PI STEGEMAN, JOHN J · 2012 to 2016
$2.1M
NIEHS NIH HHS P01 ES021923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Algae are ubiquitous in the marine environment, and the ways in which they interact with bacteria are of particular interest in marine ecology field. The interactions between primary producers and bacteria impact the physiology of both partners, alter the chemistry of their environment, and shape microbial diversity. Although algal-bacterial interactions are well known and studied, information regarding the chemical-ecological role of this relationship remains limited, particularly with respect to quorum sensing (QS), which is a system of stimuli and response correlated to population density. In the microbial biosphere, QS is pivotal in driving community structure and regulating behavioral ecology, including biofilm formation, virulence, antibiotic resistance, swarming motility, and secondary metabolite production. Many marine habitats, such as the phycosphere, harbour diverse populations of microorganisms and various signal languages (such as QS-based autoinducers). QS-mediated interactions widely influence algal-bacterial symbiotic relationships, which in turn determine community organization, population structure, and ecosystem functioning. Understanding infochemicals-mediated ecological processes may shed light on the symbiotic interactions between algae host and associated microbes. In this review, we summarize current achievements about how QS modulates microbial behavior, affects symbiotic relationships, and regulates phytoplankton chemical ecological processes. Additionally, we present an overview of QS-modulated co-evolutionary relationships between algae and bacterioplankton, and consider the potential applications and future perspectives of QS.

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algal-bacterial relationshipsbacterioplanktonco-evolutionecological behaviorsphytoplanktonsignal language

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PMID28966438
PMCPMC5619252
OpenAlexW2346697172

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