Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
3-29-2012
Department
Cell & Molecular Biology
Abstract
Phosphorus (P) is a critical driver of phytoplankton growth and ecosystem function in the ocean. Diatoms are an abundant class of marine phytoplankton that are responsible for significant amounts of primary production. With the control they exert on the oceanic carbon cycle, there have been a number of studies focused on how diatoms respond to limiting macro and micronutrients such as iron and nitrogen. However, diatom physiological responses to P deficiency are poorly understood. Here, we couple deep sequencing of transcript tags and quantitative proteomics to analyze the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana grown under P-replete and P-deficient conditions. A total of 318 transcripts were differentially regulated with a false discovery rate of
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Dyhrman ST, Jenkins BD, Rynearson TA, Saito MA, Mercier ML, et al. (2012) The Transcriptome and Proteome of the Diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana Reveal a Diverse Phosphorus Stress Response. PLoS ONE 7(3): e33768.
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033768
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