Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d.
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Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d. / Kühl, Michael; Chen, Min; Ralph, Peter J; Schreiber, Ulrich; Larkum, Anthony W D.
In: Nature, Vol. 433, No. 7028, 2005, p. 820.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d.
AU - Kühl, Michael
AU - Chen, Min
AU - Ralph, Peter J
AU - Schreiber, Ulrich
AU - Larkum, Anthony W D
N1 - Keywords: Animals; Chlorophyll; Cyanobacteria; Ecosystem; Photosynthesis; Photosystem II Protein Complex; Symbiosis; Urochordata
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The cyanobacterium known as Acaryochloris marina is a unique phototroph that uses chlorophyll d as its principal light-harvesting pigment instead of chlorophyll a, the form commonly found in plants, algae and other cyanobacteria; this means that it depends on far-red light for photosynthesis. Here we demonstrate photosynthetic activity in Acaryochloris-like phototrophs that live underneath minute coral-reef invertebrates (didemnid ascidians) in a shaded niche enriched in near-infrared light. This discovery clarifies how these cyanobacteria are able to thrive as free-living organisms in their natural habitat. Udgivelsesdato: 2005-Feb-24
AB - The cyanobacterium known as Acaryochloris marina is a unique phototroph that uses chlorophyll d as its principal light-harvesting pigment instead of chlorophyll a, the form commonly found in plants, algae and other cyanobacteria; this means that it depends on far-red light for photosynthesis. Here we demonstrate photosynthetic activity in Acaryochloris-like phototrophs that live underneath minute coral-reef invertebrates (didemnid ascidians) in a shaded niche enriched in near-infrared light. This discovery clarifies how these cyanobacteria are able to thrive as free-living organisms in their natural habitat. Udgivelsesdato: 2005-Feb-24
U2 - 10.1038/433820a
DO - 10.1038/433820a
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 15729331
VL - 433
SP - 820
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
SN - 0028-0836
IS - 7028
ER -
ID: 3185019