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Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus

Dania Albini, Mike Fowler Orcid Logo, Carole Llewellyn, Kam Tang Orcid Logo

Journal of Plankton Research, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 419 - 429

Swansea University Authors: Dania Albini, Mike Fowler Orcid Logo, Carole Llewellyn, Kam Tang Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/plankt/fbz032

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Grazer-induced colony formation is a common inducible defense strategy in microalgae against grazers, but the associated costs and reversibility of the colonies are rarely examined. Through experiments we showed that Scenedesmus obliquus formed chained colonies in the presence of a predator, but rev...

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Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
ISSN: 0142-7873 1464-3774
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
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title Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
spellingShingle Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
Dania Albini
Mike Fowler
Carole Llewellyn
Kam Tang
title_short Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
title_full Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
title_fullStr Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
title_full_unstemmed Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
title_sort Reversible colony formation and the associated costs in Scenedesmus obliquus
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description Grazer-induced colony formation is a common inducible defense strategy in microalgae against grazers, but the associated costs and reversibility of the colonies are rarely examined. Through experiments we showed that Scenedesmus obliquus formed chained colonies in the presence of a predator, but reverted to single cells after the removal of the predator. The stress indicators astaxanthin esters were present in the algal populations exposed to grazers. There were significant costs associated with colony formation in terms of lower population growth rate, lower photosystem II efficiency and lower cellular chlorophyll a content. Under these substantial costs the defense must be switched off and the colonies revert to single cells when the predation risk disappears.
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