Large centric diatoms allocate more cellular nitrogen to photosynthesis to counter slower RUBISCO turnover rates

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Yaping ^a,b   Jeans, Jennifer ^a   Suggett, David J ^c   Finkel, Zoe V ^a   Campbell, Douglas A ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coscinodiscus; Diatom; Ocean acidification; Photosynthesis; Resource allocation; RUBISCO; Size scaling; Thalassiosira

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008698621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00068     Document Type: Article

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