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SUBMITTER: Masuda T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7156374 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Masuda Takako T Inomura Keisuke K Takahata Naoto N Shiozaki Takuhei T Sano Yuji Y Deutsch Curtis C Prášil Ondřej O Furuya Ken K
Communications biology 20200414 1
Nitrogen fixing plankton provide nitrogen to fuel marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles but the factors that constrain their growth and habitat remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the importance of metabolic specialization in unicellular diazotroph populations, using laboratory experiments and model simulations. In clonal cultures of Crocosphaera watsonii and Cyanothece sp. spiked with <sup>15</sup>N<sub>2</sub>, cellular <sup>15</sup>N enrichment developed a bimodal distribution ...[more]