#microplankton — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microplankton, aggregated by home.social.
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"But they were unaware that the great majority of the #biota, perhaps 99%, easily streamed through the holes of their nets; the holes were simply too big to capture these microbes. Even when membrane flters and microscopy were used, and they revealed great diversity of #microplankton and #nanoplankton, most #microbes evaded detection. The view of the pelagic web of life that emerged and became entrenched for a century was then based on a tiny fraction of marine biota."Farooq Azam, 2011
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Active #lipids enable intelligent swimming of #microplankton under nutrient limitation https://phys.org/news/2022-11-microplankton-lipids-enable-intelligent-nutrient.html #protists #plankton #biophysics
Active reconfiguration of cytoplasmic #LipidDroplets governs migration of nutrient-limited #phytoplankton https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn6005
#Algae adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nutrients turn limiting. They strategically harness internal lipids to regulate swimming properties to maximize their fitness.