The ecology, biogeochemistry, and optical properties of coccolithophores

WM Balch - Annual review of marine science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Coccolithophores are major contributors to phytoplankton communities and ocean
biogeochemistry and are strong modulators of the optical field in the sea. New discoveries …

[HTML][HTML] Upper ocean oxygenation, evolution of RuBisCO and the Phanerozoic succession of phytoplankton

REM Rickaby, MRE Hubbard - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence is compiled to demonstrate a redox scale within Earth's photosynthesisers that
correlates the specificity of their RuBisCO with organismal metabolic tolerance to anoxia …

[HTML][HTML] The mode of speciation during a recent radiation in open-ocean phytoplankton

DA Filatov, EM Bendif, OA Archontikis, K Hagino… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the enormous ecological importance of marine phytoplankton, surprisingly little is
known about how new phytoplankton species originate and evolve in the open ocean, in the …

The origin of carbon isotope vital effects in coccolith calcite

HLO McClelland, J Bruggeman, M Hermoso… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Calcite microfossils are widely used to study climate and oceanography in Earth's geological
past. Coccoliths, readily preserved calcite plates produced by a group of single-celled …

X-ray nanotomography of coccolithophores reveals that coccolith mass and segment number correlate with grid size

T Beuvier, I Probert, L Beaufort… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coccolithophores of the Noëlaerhabdaceae family are covered by imbricated coccoliths,
each composed of multiple calcite crystals radially distributed around the periphery of a grid …

Recent reticulate evolution in the ecologically dominant lineage of coccolithophores

EM Bendif, I Probert, F Diaz-Rosas, D Thomas… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The coccolithophore family Noëlaerhabdaceae contains a number of taxa that are very
abundant in modern oceans, including the cosmopolitan bloom-forming Emiliania huxleyi …

Extracellular calcification of Braarudosphaera bigelowii deduced from electron microscopic observations of cell surface structure and elemental composition of …

K Hagino, N Tomioka, JR Young, Y Takano… - Marine …, 2016 - Elsevier
We have performed morphological and crystallographic studies of Braarudosphaera
bigelowii using various light and electron microscopy techniques. A study by light …

Distribution of extant coccolithophores from the northwest continental shelf of India during the summer monsoon

M Chowdhury, H Biswas, D Sharma, S Silori, A Winter - Phycologia, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Coccolithophores contribute substantially to marine primary production as well as to
particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) flux to the deep sea; however, there is no literature …

The algal pyrenoid

MT Meyer, MMM Goudet, H Griffiths - Photosynthesis in Algae …, 2020 - Springer
The pyrenoid is an evolutionary adaptation that enables algae to fix inorganic carbon more
efficiently in CO 2-limited environments. The genesis of this contemporary definition is nearly …

[HTML][HTML] Control of crystal growth during coccolith formation by the coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa oceanica

A Triccas, F Laidlaw, MR Singleton… - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coccolithophores are marine phytoplankton that produce calcite mineral scales called
coccoliths. Many stages in the synthesis of these structures are still unresolved, making it …