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A Large Silicon Pool in Small Picophytoplankton

Marine picophytoplankton (<2 μm) play a key role in supporting food web and energy flow in the ocean, and are major contributors to the global marine carbon (C) cycle. In recent years, picophytoplankton have been found to have significant silica (Si) accumulation, a finding which provides a new s...

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Autores principales: Wei, Yuqiu, Sun, Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9218855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756022
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.918120
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description Marine picophytoplankton (<2 μm) play a key role in supporting food web and energy flow in the ocean, and are major contributors to the global marine carbon (C) cycle. In recent years, picophytoplankton have been found to have significant silica (Si) accumulation, a finding which provides a new sight into the interaction of marine C and Si cycles and questions the overwhelming role of large diatoms (>2 μm) in the Si cycle. As picophytoplankton have high cell abundance and wide distribution in the open ocean, exploring their influences on the C and Si cycles as well as other element cycles are becoming new scientific hotspots. However, there are still few studies on the physiology and ecology of picophytoplankton, especially their potential roles in the biogeochemical Si cycle at present. Thus, it is necessary to accurately evaluate and quantify the contributions of picophytoplankton to the C and Si cycles, and to further understand their C and Si sinking mechanisms. In this review, we expect to have a novel understanding of picophytoplankton Si pool and regulation mechanism by conducting targeted studies on these scientific issues. This also provides a premise foundation and theoretical framework for further study of the role of small cells in the global ocean Si cycle and the coupling of C and Si cycles.
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spelling pubmed-92188552022-06-24 A Large Silicon Pool in Small Picophytoplankton Wei, Yuqiu Sun, Jun Front Microbiol Microbiology Marine picophytoplankton (<2 μm) play a key role in supporting food web and energy flow in the ocean, and are major contributors to the global marine carbon (C) cycle. In recent years, picophytoplankton have been found to have significant silica (Si) accumulation, a finding which provides a new sight into the interaction of marine C and Si cycles and questions the overwhelming role of large diatoms (>2 μm) in the Si cycle. As picophytoplankton have high cell abundance and wide distribution in the open ocean, exploring their influences on the C and Si cycles as well as other element cycles are becoming new scientific hotspots. However, there are still few studies on the physiology and ecology of picophytoplankton, especially their potential roles in the biogeochemical Si cycle at present. Thus, it is necessary to accurately evaluate and quantify the contributions of picophytoplankton to the C and Si cycles, and to further understand their C and Si sinking mechanisms. In this review, we expect to have a novel understanding of picophytoplankton Si pool and regulation mechanism by conducting targeted studies on these scientific issues. This also provides a premise foundation and theoretical framework for further study of the role of small cells in the global ocean Si cycle and the coupling of C and Si cycles. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9218855/ /pubmed/35756022 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.918120 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wei and Sun. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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A Large Silicon Pool in Small Picophytoplankton
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title_short A Large Silicon Pool in Small Picophytoplankton
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9218855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756022
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.918120
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