Are bacteria more like plants or animals? Growth rate and resource dependence of bacterial C : N : P stoichiometry

By Wataru Makino, J. Cotner, R. Sterner, James J. Elser. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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The stoichiometry of nitrogen and phosphorus spiralling in heterotrophic and autotrophic streams (2011, background): “Bacteria, in contrast, lack storage vacuoles, reducing their capacity to vary their internal stoichiometry (Makino et al., 2003).”
The C:N:P stoichiometry of autotrophs: Theory and observations (2004, background): “Higher growth rates are coupled not only to higher N : C and P : C but also to lower N : P in many heterotrophic organisms, including bacteria and arthropods (Elser et al. 2003; Makino et al. 2003).”
Biological stoichiometry of Daphnia growth: An ecophysiological test of the growth rate hypothesis (2004, background): “(2003), our results are consistent with similar cases of growth-dependent variation in RNA content found in Escherichia coli (Makino et al. 2003), cyanobacteria (Lepp and Schmidt 1998), yeast (Aiking and Tempest 1976), algae (Rhee 1978), and other species of Daphnia (DeMott et al.”
Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota (2003, background): “Methods of analysis for samples of larvae of the swimming crab (Lim & Hirayama 1991), the copepod (Carrillo et al. 2001), interspecific comparisons of freshwater zooplankton species (Main et al. 1997; Dobberfuhl 1999), microbes (Makino & Cotner 2003; Makino et al. 2003 ), and field observations of ”
The Functional Significance of Ribosomal (r)DNA Variation: Impacts on the Evolutionary Ecology of Organisms (2005, background): “A variety of recent studies indicates that this is the case, at least in microorganisms (Makino et al. 2003) and invertebrates including zooplankton (Acharya et al. 2004; Carrillo et al. 2001; Elser et al. 1996; Main et al. 1997; Vrede et al. 1998, 2002”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “Ferris et al. (1997) demonstrated that theC:Nof isolates of soil bacteria and Escherichia coli ranged between 3.65 and 4.92 (with a mean of 4.12) and Makino et al. (2003) demonstrated a strong stoichiometric homeostasis in biomass P (and related biomass C”
Diel phosphorus variation and the stoichiometry of ecosystem metabolism in a large spring-fed river (2013, background): “In addition, heterotrophs often obtain elements from organic substrates, potentially decoupling demand for various inorganic nutrients (Elser and Urabe 1999, Makino et al. 2003).”
Increase in microbial biomass and phosphorus availability in the rhizosphere of intercropped cereal and legumes under field conditions (2014, background): “This cellular P enrichment could correspond partly to an increase in cellular activity by a higher RNA pool (Elser et al., 2003; Makino et al., 2003).”
The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives (2011, background): “Makino et al. (2003) observed that E. coli has only two-fold variations in biomass C”
Drought changes phosphorus and potassium accumulation patterns in an evergreen Mediterranean forest (2007, background): “in plants, affect trophic chains and are likely to produce shifts in the composition of herbivore communities and in the specific selection of plants by herbivores as food sources (Makino et al. 2003; Ngai & Jefferies 2004; Diehl, Berger & Wohrl 2005).”
N : P ratios in terrestrial plants: variation and functional significance. (2004, background): “Relationships between RGR and N : P ratios have also been described for algae (Elrifi & Turpin, 1985) and bacteria (Makino et al., 2003).”
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus supply on growth rate, leaf stoichiometry, and nutrient resorption of Arabidopsis thaliana (2014, neutral): “Thus, the GRH may be related to types of nutrient limitation, because excessive N and P uptake can mask the stoichiometric requirement and obscure the relationship between N”
Stoichiometrically Explicit Food Webs: Feedbacks between Resource Supply, Elemental Constraints, and Species Diversity (2009, background): “This result should not seem too surprising, because microbial decomposers do not merely mineralize nutrients; they may compete fiercely for nutrients and can have high and relatively homeostatic nutrient content relative to plants and detritus (Makino et al. 2003).”