Specific bacterial microbiome enhances the sexual reproduction and auxospore production of the marine diatom, Odontella

Auxospore production is a sexual reproductive strategy by diatoms to re-attain normal size after the size-reducing effect of clonal reproduction. Aside from the minimum size threshold used as a sex clock by diatoms, the environmental or chemical triggers that can induce sex in diatoms are still not...

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Main Authors: Marilou P. Sison-Mangus, Michael W. Kempnich, Monica Appiano, Sanjin Mehic, Terril Yazzie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581435/?tool=EBI