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  Growth and organic osmolytes of geographically different isolates of Microcoleus chthonoplastes (cyanobacteria) from benthic microbial mats: Response to salinity change

Karsten, U. (1996). Growth and organic osmolytes of geographically different isolates of Microcoleus chthonoplastes (cyanobacteria) from benthic microbial mats: Response to salinity change. Journal of Phycology, 32(4), 501-506. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1996.00501.x.

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 Abstract: The comparative growth and osmotic acclimation of ten culture strains of the marine benthic cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes Thuret isolated from microbial mats in Germany, Spain, Egypt, the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Australia were investigated in salinities ranging from freshwater to twice seawater. All isolates showed a broad growth versus salinity response consistent with the dominance of this species in intertidal and hypersaline microbial communities. Growth optima, salinity preferences, and maximum growth rates differed for each isolate and could be related to the habitat from which they were isolated. This is most obvious when comparing strains from brackish habitats with those from a hypersaline lake. While the former isolates exhibited sharply pronounced growth optima under hyposaline conditions, cultures from the hypersaline environment grew best in salinity more than double seawater. The major low-molecular weight organic compounds present in all M. chthonoplastes strains were the carbohydrates glycosylglycerol and trehalose. This was proven by using C-13-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Glycosylglycerol was synthesized and accumulated with increasing salinities, indicating its role as an osmolyte. In contrast, trehalose was present in relatively high concentrations under hyposaline conditions only. Differences in the patterns of growth versus salinity, as well as in those of osmotic acclimation among the M. chthonoplastes isolates, point to the development of different physiological ecotypes within the species.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 1996
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Title: Journal of Phycology
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Publ. Info: Oxford : Blackwell Pub.
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 32 (4) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 501 - 506 Identifier: ISSN: 0022-3646
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925417985