Crown-of-thorns starfish larvae feast on toxic cyanobacteria https://phys.org/news/2024-07-crown-thorns-starfish-larvae-feast.html

#CrownOfThornsStarfish complete their larval phase eating only nitrogen-fixing Trichodesmium #cyanobacteria https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado2682

"crown-of-thorns #starfish larvae grow and thrive when raised on an exclusive diet of #Trichodesmium—#bacteria that often float on the ocean's surface in large slicks."

#Neuston: Of Terms in Biology https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/09/da-capo-of-terms-in-biology-neuston.html @STCmicrobeblog

"The presence of a gelatinous surface microlayer film had been proposed in 1983, based partly on observations of the slick associated with blooms in the #SargassoSea of the filamentous #cyanobacteria #Trichodesmium... What about the ocean surface film from the #microbial neustonian point of view? It might appear to be an immense #biofilm stretching from horizon to horizon... Estimates of its thickness range from 1 to 50 µm"

How an #ocean-fertilising #bacterium forms aggregates https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/06/how-an-ocean-fertilising-bacterium-forms-aggregates.html

Controlled motility in the cyanobacterium #Trichodesmium regulates aggregate architecture https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf2753 #cyanobacteria #bacteria #microbes by Ulrike Pfreundt et al.

"Trichodesmium fertilises nutrient-​poor regions of the oceans and thereby enables life. Crucial to its success is its ability to form aggregates in order to react quickly to changes in its environment."

Movement of #filaments of #Trichodesmium and their interactions with other filaments help form #aggregates.

#gliding #bacteria

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-movement-filaments-trichodesmium-interactions-aggregates.html

RT @Valtzen: East China Sea

Blooming colonies of #Trichodesmium algae resemble black oil slicks on the water surface while linear layout of wind turbines provides an interesting contrast

🔎&💬the image on @Soar_Earth ➡️https://soar.earth/maps/12500?pos=32.0847731534579,122.12502964172845,13

#Sentinel2 #Ocean #MapMonday #China #eochat

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