Journal Article
Transcriptional responses of the marine green alga Micromonas pusilla and an infecting prasinovirus under different phosphate conditions
Charles Bachy; Christina J. Charlesworth; Amy M. Chan; Jan F. Finke; Chee‐Hong Wong; Chia‐Lin Wei; Sebastian Sudek; Maureen L. Coleman; Curtis A. Suttle; Alexandra Z. Worden
Environmental Microbiology · Vol. 20, Issue 8 · pp. 2898-2912 · 2018
Abstract
Summary Prasinophytes are widespread marine algae for which responses to nutrient limitation and viral infection are not well understood. We studied the picoprasinophyte, Micromonas pusilla , grown under phosphate‐replete (0.65 ± 0.07 d −1 ) and 10‐fold lower (low)‐phosphate (0.11 ± 0.04 d −1 ) conditions, and infected by the phycodnavirus MpV‐SP1. Expression of 17% of Micromonas genes in uninfected cells differed by >1.5‐fold ( q