TIME-COURSE MEASUREMENTS OF PHOSPHORUS DEPLETION AND CYST FORMATION IN THE DINOFLAGELLATE GONYAULAX-TAMARENSIS LEBOUR
TIME-COURSE MEASUREMENTS OF PHOSPHORUS DEPLETION AND CYST FORMATION IN THE DINOFLAGELLATE GONYAULAX-TAMARENSIS LEBOUR
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-0981(85)90039-5
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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2
通讯作者:
LINDQUIST, NL
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作者:
ANDERSON, DM;LINDQUIST, NL
Time-course measurements were made during the transition from asexual to sexual reproduction and cyst formation in P-limited batch cultures of the dinoflagellate G. tamarensis Lebour. The initial phase of growth was predominantly asexual, during which time the intracellular and extracellular P pools decreased steadily in the light and the dark. Cellular P dropped to a subsistence cell quota of 27 pg/cell as division ceased. This gradual decrease in cellular P in the presence of .mu. molar PO34- concentrations suggests that this species may encyst in natural waters in response to nutrient limitation at concentrations above analytical detection limits. As the cells approached plateau phase, asexual growth ceased and sexual reproduction occurred, marked by an initial decrease in average cell diameter; a subsequent increase in diameter through time as gametes fused, forming swimming zygotes (planozygotes); and a possible surge in division rate. Although the motile population appeared to reach a typical plateau or stationary growth phase, the population was changing in composition as planozygotes formed and cysts fell from suspension. Planozygote numbers increased gradually over a 4-day interval, followed 6 days later by a parallel increase in cyst numbers. Gamete formation and/or fusion did not occur in sudden, synchronized fashion, or alternatively that the duration of planozygote development varied as the batch cultures aged. Approximately 20% of all motile cells successfully completed encystment.