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. 2019 Oct;21(10):3613-3626.
doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14684. Epub 2019 Jun 17.

Evaluating the stoichiometric trait distributions of cultured bacterial populations and uncultured microbial communities

Michael Manzella  1   2 , Roy Geiss  3 , Ed K Hall  1   4
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Evaluating the stoichiometric trait distributions of cultured bacterial populations and uncultured microbial communities

Michael Manzella et al. Environ Microbiol. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

We measured the stoichiometric trait distribution of cultured freshwater bacterial populations under different resource conditions and compared them to natural microbial communities sampled from three lakes. Trait distributions showed population differences among growth phases and community differences among lakes that would have been masked by only reporting the mean biomass value. The stoichiometric trait distribution of the environmental isolates changed with P availability, growth phase and genotype, with P availability having the strongest effect. The distribution of biomass ratios within each isolate growth experiment were the most constrained during the stages of rapid growth and commonly had unimodal distributions. In contrast to the population distributions, the distribution of N:P and C:P for a similar number of cells from each of the lake communities had narrower stoichiometric distributions and more commonly exhibited multiple modes. © 2019 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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