Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium

Meri Eichner; Keisuke Inomura; Juan José Pierella Karlusich; Yeala Shaked

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.001

Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium

Meri Eichner^*
, Keisuke Inomura
, Juan José Pierella Karlusich
, Yeala Shaked

^*Corresponding author for this work

Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences

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Abstract

The N₂-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium is an important player in the oceanic nitrogen and carbon cycles. Trichodesmium occurs both as single trichomes and as colonies containing hundreds of trichomes. In this review, we explore the benefits and disadvantages of colony formation, considering physical, chemical, and biological effects from nanometer to kilometer scale. Showing that all major life challenges are affected by colony formation, we claim that Trichodesmium's ecological success is tightly linked to its colonial lifestyle. Microbial interactions in the microbiome, chemical gradients within the colony, interactions with particles, and elevated mobility in the water column shape a highly dynamic microenvironment. We postulate that these dynamics are key to the resilience of Trichodesmium and other colony formers in our changing environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1072-1084
Number of pages	13
Journal	Trends in Microbiology
Volume	31
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.001
State	Published - Oct 2023

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Trichodesmium
aggregation
colony
microbiome
microenvironment

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Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium

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