Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity

By B. V. Mooy, Helen F. Fredricks, B. Pedler, Sonya T. Dyhrman, David M. Karl, M. Koblížek, Michael W. Lomas, T. Mincer, Lisa R. Moore, T. Moutin and 2 more. Nature, 2009

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A microbial source of phosphonates in oligotrophic marine systems (2009, background): “erythraeum IMS101 has shown that it will decrease the production of P-containing lipids under P stress, when the particulate P concentration is lo”
Harmful algal blooms along the North American west coast region: History, trends, causes, and impacts (2012, background): “Anthropogenic nutrient sources are more likely to be relevant in inland waters along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and in Puget Sound (Rensel, 2007), although with the exception of some shallow bays, the nutrient source is still more likely upwelled waters.”
Phytoplankton taxon-specific orthophosphate (Pi) and ATP utilization in the western subtropical North Atlantic (2009, background): “This suggests that eukaryotes have a higher P demand (relative to C) than cyanobacteria, perhaps due to differential abilities to synthesize non-phosphorus lipids (Van Mooy et al. 2009), and also strongly suggests that they are growing more slowly due to greater P stress.”
Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemical Cycling, Invasive Species, and Aquatic Food Webs: San Francisco Estuary and Comparative Systems (2011, background): “It may also have the capability to reduce its P requirement by lipid substitution, as shown for other cyanobacteria (Van Mooey et al, 2009 ).”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…nutrients limitation is seldom occurring and little direct evidence is available for instantaneous phosphorus limitation of primary production (Van Mooy et al., 2009) and several observations are indicative of phytoplankton assemblages that are highly adapted to phosphorus scarcity (with…”