The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin was cultured in five different growth regimes to obtain cells with different composition. Pairs of population subject to different treatments were then mixed in a communal culture regime that differed from those of origin. After six hours, the ratio between the two populations was verified by flow cytometry. Alterations in this ratio were found when cells previously grown at 1 mM NH4+ were mixed with GeO2- and 0.5 mM NH4+-grown cells. The nutritional background may thus make cells differently suited to new environmental conditions and afford advantages in terms of reproductive potential. Competitive interactions between populations may result from the differences in the expressed proteome and/or in the availability of tools for regulatory responses. This may have relevance to the persistence of phenotypically neutral variants present in the population best suited to the new condition, after the interaction of the conspecifics with different nutritional histories.

Intraspecific interaction between algae with different nutritional history / Venuleo, M.; Giordano, M.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY. - ISSN 1529-8817. - STAMPA. - 215:2 516-530(2018), pp. 516-530. [10.1111/jpy.12642]

Intraspecific interaction between algae with different nutritional history

Venuleo M.;Giordano M.
2018-01-01

Abstract

The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin was cultured in five different growth regimes to obtain cells with different composition. Pairs of population subject to different treatments were then mixed in a communal culture regime that differed from those of origin. After six hours, the ratio between the two populations was verified by flow cytometry. Alterations in this ratio were found when cells previously grown at 1 mM NH4+ were mixed with GeO2- and 0.5 mM NH4+-grown cells. The nutritional background may thus make cells differently suited to new environmental conditions and afford advantages in terms of reproductive potential. Competitive interactions between populations may result from the differences in the expressed proteome and/or in the availability of tools for regulatory responses. This may have relevance to the persistence of phenotypically neutral variants present in the population best suited to the new condition, after the interaction of the conspecifics with different nutritional histories.
2018
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