A Parasitic Arsenic Cycle That Shuttles Energy from Phytoplankton to Heterotrophic Bacterioplankton

ABSTRACT In many regions of the world oceans, phytoplankton face the problem of discriminating between phosphate, an essential nutrient, and arsenate, a toxic analogue. Many phytoplankton, including the most abundant phytoplankton group known, Prochlorococcus, detoxify arsenate (AsV) by reduction to...

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Main Authors: Stephen J. Giovannoni, Kimberly H. Halsey, Jimmy Saw, Omran Muslin, Christopher P. Suffridge, Jing Sun, Chih-Ping Lee, Eric R. Moore, Ben Temperton, Stephen E. Noell
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b4d34f574ddc4a0ab48e070813d9871f
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