Abundant Sulfitobacter marine bacteria protect Emiliania huxleyi algae from pathogenic bacteria.

ABSTRACT: Emiliania huxleyi is a unicellular micro-alga that forms massive oceanic blooms and plays key roles in global biogeochemical cycles. Mounting studies demonstrate various stimulatory and inhibitory influences that bacteria have on the E. huxleyi physiology. To investigate these algal-bacterial interactions, laboratory co-cultures have been established by us and by others. Owing to these co-cultures, various mechanisms of algal-bacterial interactions have been revealed, many involving bacterial pathogenicity towards algae. However, co-cultures represent a significantly simplified system, lacking the complexity of bacterial communities. In order to investigate bacterial pathogenicity within an ecologically relevant context, it becomes imperative to enhance the microbial complexity of co-cultu

SUBMITTER: Beiralas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10517135 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature