{"id":2935,"date":"2014-08-30T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:13:21","slug":"phytoplankton-produces-its-own-vitamins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/phytoplankton-produces-its-own-vitamins\/","title":{"rendered":"Phytoplankton produces its own vitamins<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2936\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/huxleyi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2936\" class=\"wp-image-2936 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/huxleyi.jpg\" alt=\"Scanning electron micrograph of Emiliania huxleyi, a type of marine phytoplankton whose blooms can grow so large they are visible from space. Researchers have found it does not require external supplies of vitamin B1 to grow, as previously thought. (Photo credit: Bjoern Rost, Alfred Wegener Institut)\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/huxleyi.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/huxleyi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">huxleyi.jpg<br \/> Scanning electron micrograph of Emiliania huxleyi, a type of marine phytoplankton whose blooms can grow so large they are visible from space. Researchers have found it does not require external supplies of vitamin B1 to grow, as previously thought. (Photo credit: Bjoern Rost, Alfred Wegener Institut)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A type of phytoplankton found all over the world appears to be able to survive without external supplies of vitamin B<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, leading to a re-thinking of how the vitamin controls growth and carbon uptake in the global oceans.\u00a0<\/span>The availability of nutrients and vitamins in the ocean is a key limiting factor controlling blooms of phytoplankton, which in turn have a huge influence on the amount of carbon flowing in and out of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers have discovered that <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Emiliania huxleyi,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> a widespread type of phytoplankton that forms large blooms,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">is able to survive without any vitamin B<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Instead <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">E. huxleyi <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">produces its own vitamin B<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> from a precursor molecule. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This means that the organisms may survive in places previously unexpected, i.e. where vitamin B<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is scarce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ismej\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ismej2014146a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in <em>The ISME Journal\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August\u00a029, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexandra Worden, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, U.S.A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Archibald, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lindsay Jolivet, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of phytoplankton found all over the world appears to be able to survive without external supplies of vitamin B1, leading to a re-thinking of how the vitamin controls growth and carbon uptake in the global oceans.\u00a0The availability of nutrients and vitamins in the ocean is a key limiting factor controlling blooms of phytoplankton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,171,215,1287,225],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-nova-scotia","tag-oceanography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/huxleyi.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ll","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}