Nicholas Blackburn
Marine Biological Laboratory
14 Papers
144 Citations
Nicholas Blackburn is an academic researcher from Marine Biological Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Marine bacteriophage & Population. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Blackburn include Umeå University.
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Papers
Microscale Nutrient Patches in Planktonic Habitats Shown by Chemotactic Bacteria
TL;DR: The swimming behavior of chemotactic bacteria in seawater samples was examined and clusters of bacteria formed in conjunction with cell lysis and excretion by protozoa, creating point sources of nutrients that spread into spherical patches and sustained swarms of bacteria for about 10 minutes.
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Effects of Bacteriophages on the Population Dynamics of Four Strains of Pelagic Marine Bacteria.
Mathias Middelboe,Åke Hagström,Nicholas Blackburn,B. Sinn,U. Fischer,N. H. Borch,Jarone Pinhassi,Karin Simu,M.G. Lorenz +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that viral lysis can have a strong influence on the dynamics of bacterial populations in planktonic marine systems.
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Variability in motility characteristics among marine bacteria
TL;DR: A total of 70% of the bacterial isolates showed a turn angle larger than 150° (range 127 to 180°), demonstrating that reversal of swimming direction is an important strategy for bacteria in the marine environment, in contrast to the biased random walk exhibited by enteric bacteria.
Spatially explicit simulations of a microbial food web
TL;DR: In this article, a mechanistic model of a simplified microbial food web was implemented based on spatially explicit transport of nutrients and energy sources by molecular diffusion, and individual organisms were simulated to interact in a two-dimensional arena consisting of 70 X 70 interconnected hexagonal compartments each of 2 nl in volume.
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Influences of temperature, salinity and starvation on the motility and chemotactic response of Vibrio anguillarum.
TL;DR: Not only was the ability to perform chemotactic motility maintained after starvation, but also it was shown that starvation does not interfere with the ability of the organism to cause infection in rainbow trout after a bath challenge.
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