Production and cross-feeding of nitrite within Prochlorococcus populations
ABSTRACT Prochlorococcus is an abundant photosynthetic bacterium in the open ocean, where nitrogen (N) often limits phytoplankton growth. In the low-light-adapted LLI clade of Prochlorococcus, nearly all cells can assimilate nitrite (NO2−), with a subset capable of assimilating nitrate (NO3−). LLI c...
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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2023-08-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01236-23 |