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Low genomic diversity in tropical oceanic N2-fixing cyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Nov 2007
Zehr Jonathan P, Bench Shellie R, Mondragon Elizabeth A, McCarren Jay, DeLong Edward F
Abstract excerpt
High levels of genomic and allelic microvariation have been found in major marine planktonic microbial species, including the ubiquitous open ocean cyanobacterium, Prochlorococcus marinus. Crocosphaera watsonii is a unicellular cyanobacterium that has recently been shown to be important in oceanic N2 fixation and has been reported from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in both hemispheres, and the Arabian Sea. In...
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