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ArticleMicrobiologyOpen2019

Algicidal bacteria trigger contrasting responses in model diatom communities of different composition.

Arite Bigalke, Georg Pohnert

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Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Marine BacteriumJournal of natural products · 2026
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  4. Dynamic Diatom-Bacteria Consortia in Synthetic Plankton Communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arite BigalkeInstitute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Bioorganic Analytics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Georg PohnertInstitute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Bioorganic Analytics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2351-6336
Friedrich Schiller University Jena · DEMax Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Algicidal bacteria are important players regulating the dynamic changes of plankton assemblages. Most studies on these bacteria have focused on the effect on single algal species in simple incubation experiments. Considering the complexity of species assemblages in the natural plankton, such incubations represent an oversimplification and do not allow making further reaching conclusions on ecological interactions. Here, we describe a series of co-incubation experiments with different level of complexity to elucidate the effect of the algicidal bacterium Kordia algicida on mixed cultures of a resistant and a susceptible diatom. The growth of the resistant diatom Chaetoceros didymus is nearly unaffected by K. algicida in monoculture, while cells of the susceptible diatom Skeletonema costatum are lysed within few hours. Growth of C. didymus is inhibited if mixed cultures of the two diatoms are infected with the bacterium. Incubations with filtrates of the infected cultures show that the effects are chemically mediated. In non-contact co-culturing we show that low concentrations of the lysed algae support the growth of C. didymus, while higher concentrations trigger population decline. Complex cascading effects of algicidal bacteria have thus to be taken into account if their ecological role is concerned.

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AntibiosisDiatomsFlavobacteriaceaePlanktonalgicidal bacteriaco-culturescommunity ecologydiatomsphytoplanktonPlankton interactions

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PMID30809963
PMCPMC6692526
OpenAlexW2916153180

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