Summary[
edit] Description: English: Deposition velocity versus cell diameters (A) Deposition velocity of varying cell diameters of viruses (blue), prokaryotes (red), and eukaryotes (green). (B) Microscopy images of microorganisms representative of the particle diameter chosen: (1) SARS-CoV-2, (2) Emiliania huxleyi virus, (3) SAR11, (4) Prochlorococcus, (5) Synechococcus, (6) Micromonas pusilla, (7) Emiliania huxleyi, (8) Thalassiosira sp., and (9) Dinophysis acuminata. (1–7) Approximate scale bars were added. The microscopy images in (B) were reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution International licenses and were captured by (1) NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana (2) Wikimedia commons (3) Steindler et al. (2011) (4) Luke Thompson at the Sallie Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson at Whitehead, MIT (5) Proyecto Agua at Biodiversidad virtual, Cantabria, Spain (6) Manton and Parke (1960) and courtesy of Nordic Microalgae and Aquatic Protozoa (Karlson et al., 2020) (7) Alison R. Taylor, University of North Carolina Wilmington Microscopy Facility (8) Moore et al. (2017) and (9) Plankton Net, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Steindler, L., Schwalbach, M. S., Smith, D. P., Chan, F., and Giovannoni, S. J. (2011). Energy starved Candidatus Pelagibacter Ubique substitutes light-mediated ATP production for endogenous carbon respiration. PLoS One 6:e19725. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019725 Manton, I., and Parke, M. (1960). Further observations on small green flagellates with special reference to possible relatives of Chromulina pusilla Butcher. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K. 39, 275–298. Karlson, B., Andreasson, A., Johansen, M., Karlberg, M., Loo, A., and Skjevik, A.-T. (2020). Nordic Microalgae. Micromonas pusilla. Available online at:
http://nordicmicroalgae.org (accessed October 4, 2021). Moore, E. R., Bullington, B. S., Weisberg, A. J., Jiang, Y., Chang, J., and Halsey, K. H. (2017). Morphological and transcriptomic evidence for ammonium induction of sexual reproduction in Thalassiosira pseudonana and other centric diatoms. PLoS One 12:e0181098. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181098. Date: 28 September 2021, 22:18:58. Source:
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10.3389/fmicb.2021.764178. Author: Alyssa N. Alsante, Daniel C. O. Thornton and Sarah D. Brooks.