Dominant oceanic bacteria secure phosphate using a large extracellular buffer

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Zubkov, M.V., Martin, A.P., Hartmann, M., Grob, C., Scanlan, D.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Fuller; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511066/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511066/13/ncomms8878.pdf

The ubiquitous SAR11 and Prochlorococcus bacteria manage to maintain a sufficient supply of phosphate in phosphate-poor surface waters of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Furthermore, it seems that their phosphate uptake may counter-intuitively be lower in more productive tropical waters, as if...