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Deciphering Metabolic Currencies That Support Marine Microbial Networks

Microbes are omnipresent in the biosphere and perform biological and chemical processes critical to ecosystem function, nutrient cycling, and global climate regulation. In the ocean, microbes constitute more than two-thirds of biomass with abundances reaching over one million microbial cells per mil...

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Autor principal: Durham, Bryndan P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8407199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34427508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00763-21
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description Microbes are omnipresent in the biosphere and perform biological and chemical processes critical to ecosystem function, nutrient cycling, and global climate regulation. In the ocean, microbes constitute more than two-thirds of biomass with abundances reaching over one million microbial cells per milliliter of seawater. Our understanding of the marine microbial world has rapidly expanded with use of innovative molecular and chemical ‘omics tools to uncover previously hidden taxonomic diversity, spatiotemporal distributions, and novel metabolic functions. Recognition that specific microbial taxa cooccur in consistent patterns in the ocean has implicated microbe-microbe interactions as important, but poorly constrained, regulators of microbial activity. Here, I examine cooperative interactions among marine plankton, with a focus on the metabolic “currencies” that establish microbial partnerships in the surface-ocean trade economy. I discuss current and future directions to study microbial metabolic interactions in order to strengthen our understanding of ecosystem interdependencies and their impact on ocean biogeochemistry.
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spelling pubmed-84071992021-09-09 Deciphering Metabolic Currencies That Support Marine Microbial Networks Durham, Bryndan P. mSystems Commentary Microbes are omnipresent in the biosphere and perform biological and chemical processes critical to ecosystem function, nutrient cycling, and global climate regulation. In the ocean, microbes constitute more than two-thirds of biomass with abundances reaching over one million microbial cells per milliliter of seawater. Our understanding of the marine microbial world has rapidly expanded with use of innovative molecular and chemical ‘omics tools to uncover previously hidden taxonomic diversity, spatiotemporal distributions, and novel metabolic functions. Recognition that specific microbial taxa cooccur in consistent patterns in the ocean has implicated microbe-microbe interactions as important, but poorly constrained, regulators of microbial activity. Here, I examine cooperative interactions among marine plankton, with a focus on the metabolic “currencies” that establish microbial partnerships in the surface-ocean trade economy. I discuss current and future directions to study microbial metabolic interactions in order to strengthen our understanding of ecosystem interdependencies and their impact on ocean biogeochemistry. American Society for Microbiology 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8407199/ /pubmed/34427508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00763-21 Text en Copyright © 2021 Durham. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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