ArticleEnvironmental microbiology reports2023
Biogenic silica accumulation in picoeukaryotes: Novel players in the marine silica cycle.
Article in Environmental microbiology reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Seasonal dynamics and nutrient controls of biogenic silica in Baltic Sea surface microplankton and picoplankton communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- The evaluation of biogenic silica in brackish and freshwater strains reveals links between phylogeny and silica accumulation in picocyanobacteria.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Biogenic silica accumulation in picoeukaryotes: Novel players in the marine silica cycle.Environmental microbiology reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
It is well known that the biological control of oceanic silica cycling is dominated by diatoms, with sponges and radiolarians playing additional roles. Recent studies have revealed that some smaller marine organisms (e.g. the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus) also take up silicic acid (dissolved silica, dSi) and accumulate silica, despite not exhibiting silicon dependent cellular structures. Here, we show biogenic silica (bSi) accumulation in five strains of picoeukaryotes (<2-3 μm), including three novel isolates from the Baltic Sea, and two marine species (Ostreococcus tauri and Micromonas commoda), in cultures grown with added dSi (100 μM). Average bSi accumulation in these novel biosilicifiers was between 30 and 92 amol Si cell
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