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Metabolic and physiological changes in Prymnesium parvum when grown under, and grazing on prey of, variable nitrogen:phosphorus stoichiometry
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Biology and Environmental Science. (Ctr Ecol & Evolut Microbial Model Syst EEMiS)
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Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Biology and Environmental Science. Lund University;Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. (Ctr Ecol & Evolut Microbial Model Syst EEMiS)
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Biology and Environmental Science. (Ctr Ecol & Evolut Microbial Model Syst EEMiS)
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2016 (English)In: Harmful Algae, ISSN 1568-9883, E-ISSN 1878-1470, Vol. 55, p. 1-12Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Mixotrophy is found in almost all classes of phytoplankton in a wide range of aquatic habitats ranging from oligotrophic to eutrophic marine and freshwater systems. Few studies have addressed how the nutritional status of the predator and/or the prey affects mixotrophic metabolism despite the realization that mixotrophy is important ecologically. Laboratory experiments were conducted to examine changes in growth rates and physiological states of the toxic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum when fed Rhodomonas sauna of varying nutritional status. Haemolytic activity of P. parvum and prey mortality of R. sauna were also measured. P. parvum cultures grown to be comparatively low in nitrogen (low-N), phosphorus (low-P) or low in both nutrients (low-NP) were mixed with low-NP, low-N, and low-P R. saline in all possible combinations, i.e., a 3 x 3 factorial design. N deficiency was obtained in the low-N cultures, while true P deficiency may not have been obtained in the low-P cultures. Mortality rates of R. salina (both due to ingestion and/or cell rupture as a function of grazing or toxic effects) were higher when R. sauna cells were low-P, N-rich, regardless of the nutritional state of P. parvum. Mortality rates were, however, directly related to the initial prey:predator cell ratios. On the other hand, growth of the predator was a function of nutritional status and a significant positive correlation was observed between growth rates of P. parvum and cell-specific depletion rates of N, whereas no such relationship was found between P. parvum growth rates and depletion rates of P. In addition, the greatest changes in chlorophyll content and stoichiometric ratios of P. parvum were observed in high N:P conditions. Therefore, P. parvum may show enhanced success under conditions of higher inorganic N:P, which are likely favored in the future due to increases in eutrophication and altered nutrient stoichiometry driven by anthropogenic nutrient loads that are increasingly enriched in N relative to P. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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2016. Vol. 55, p. 1-12
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Mixotrophy, Variable stoichiometry, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Prymnesium parvum
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Ecology, Aquatic Ecology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54689DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2016.01.002ISI: 000377323300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84962162237OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-54689DiVA, id: diva2:949699
Available from: 2016-07-22 Created: 2016-07-21 Last updated: 2018-11-15Bibliographically approved

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