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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021

Viral-Mediated Microbe Mortality Modulated by Ocean Acidification and Eutrophication: Consequences for the Carbon Fluxes Through the Microbial Food Web.

Andrea Malits, Julia A Boras, Vanessa Balagué, Eva Calvo, Josep M Gasol, Cèlia Marrasé, Carles Pelejero, Jarone Pinhassi, Maria Montserrat Sala, Dolors Vaqué

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Andrea MalitsBiological Oceanography Laboratory, Austral Center for Scientific Research (CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina.
Julia A BorasDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Vanessa BalaguéDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Eva CalvoDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Josep M GasolDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Cèlia MarraséDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Carles PelejeroDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Jarone PinhassiCentre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Maria Montserrat SalaDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Dolors VaquéDepartment of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Institut Català de Ciències del Clima · ESInstitut de Ciències del Mar · ESConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARLinnaeus University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic carbon emissions are causing changes in seawater carbonate chemistry including a decline in the pH of the oceans. While its aftermath for calcifying microbes has been widely studied, the effect of ocean acidification (OA) on marine viruses and their microbial hosts is controversial, and even more in combination with another anthropogenic stressor, i.e., human-induced nutrient loads. In this study, two mesocosm acidification experiments with Mediterranean waters from different seasons revealed distinct effects of OA on viruses and viral-mediated prokaryotic mortality depending on the trophic state and the successional stage of the plankton community. In the winter bloom situation, low fluorescence viruses, the most abundant virus-like particle (VLP) subpopulation comprising mostly bacteriophages, were negatively affected by lowered pH with nutrient addition, while the bacterial host abundance was stimulated. High fluorescence viruses, containing cyanophages, were stimulated by OA regardless of the nutrient conditions, while cyanobacteria of the genus

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carbon fluxeseutrophicationmicrobial food webocean acidificationviral shunt

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PMID33935996
PMCPMC8079731
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