ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2025
The microbial phosphorus cycle in aquatic ecosystems.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Microbial phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
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- Lytic viruses drive the decrease in polyphosphate-accumulating and phosphate-solubilizing potential of microbial communities with increasing reservoir age.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Spatial Patterns and Ecological Drivers of Sedimentary Eukaryotic Microorganisms Across Typical Depositional Zones of Lake Taihu.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Bacterial necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities via resource partitioning.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
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- Widespread promiscuous alkaline phosphatases underscore ancient microbial phosphite utilization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Temperature seasonality constrains soil T4-like bacteriophage abundance at large spatial scale.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
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- Thermotolerant class A acid phosphatase active across broad pH range and diverse substrates.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Article
- Microbial responses to ocean deoxygenation: Revisiting the impacts on organic carbon cycling.iScience · 2025Review
- Rhythmic radial oxygen loss enhances soil phosphorus bioavailability.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The interplay of carbon and nitrogen cycling driven by watershed microorganisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Phosphonate-driven oxic CHISME communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Phosphorus is an essential element for life, and phosphorus cycling is crucial to planetary habitability. In aquatic environments, microorganisms are a major component of phosphorus cycling and rapidly transform the diverse chemical forms of phosphorus through various uptake, assimilation and release pathways. Recent discoveries have revealed a more dynamic and complex aquatic microbial phosphorus cycle than previously understood. Some microorganisms have been shown to use and produce new phosphorus compounds, including those in reduced forms. New findings have also raised numerous unanswered questions that warrant further investigation. There is an expanding influence of human activity on aquatic ecosystems. Advancements in understanding the phosphorus biogeochemistry of evolving aquatic environments offer a unique opportunity to comprehend, anticipate and mitigate the effect of human activities. In this Review, I discuss the wealth of new aquatic phosphorus cycle research, spanning disciplines from omics and physiology to global biogeochemical modelling, with a focus on the current comprehension of how aquatic microorganisms sense, transport, assimilate, store, produce and release phosphorus. Of note, I delve into cellular phosphorus allocation, an underexplored topic with wide-ranging implications for energy and element flux in aquatic ecosystems.
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