Inherent and apparent traits in microbial nutrient uptake
2011; Inter-Research; Volume: 440; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3354/meps09355
ISSN1616-1599
Autores Tópico(s)Algal biology and biofuel production
ResumoMEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 440:41-51 (2011) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09355 Inherent and apparent traits in microbial nutrient uptake Dag L. Aksnes1,*, Francisco J. Cao2 1Department of Biology, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway 2Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain *Email: dag.aksnes@bio.uib.no ABSTRACT: Nearly 50 yr ago, the Michaelis-Menten (MM) model, originally derived for enzyme kinetics, was adapted to characterize microbial nutrient uptake and has become a framework for defining microbial traits in competition theory, evolutionary dynamics, and ocean ecosystem models. We provide theoretical evidence that microbial traits and environmental properties are not appropriately distinguished in current ecological modeling that makes use of MM models, and we propose a framework where inherent microbial traits are explicitly distinguished from environmental variables. This provides novel expectations on how nutrient uptake is affected by cell size, porter density, temperature, and nutrient regimes, and we show that uptake kinetics and trade- offs likely differ between oligotrophic and eutrophic regimes. We present mechanistic expressions for the affinity and the half-saturation (K) coefficients, and our results suggest that K might behave opposite to that commonly assumed in ecological modeling and should be abandoned as an index of uptake efficiency. Our results further suggest that the effect of organism size, considered a master trait in modeling, on specific uptake and growth rates is effectively modified by porter density, although differently in oligotrophic and eutrophic regimes. While nutrient uptake studies have commonly been carried out at a bulk scale, which is much larger than that experienced by the organisms, our study emphasize the need for observations at the scale of the individual. KEY WORDS: Nutrient uptake · Microorganism · Trait · Affinity · Half-saturation constant · Model Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Aksnes DL, Cao FJ (2011) Inherent and apparent traits in microbial nutrient uptake. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 440:41-51. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09355 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 440. Online publication date: October 28, 2011 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2011 Inter-Research.
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