Article
Variation in tropical reef symbiont metagenomes defined by secondary metabolism.
PloS one - 22 Mar 2011
Donia Mohamed S, Fricke W Florian, Ravel Jacques, Schmidt Eric W
Abstract excerpt
The complex evolution of secondary metabolism is important in biology, drug development, and synthetic biology. To examine this problem at a fine scale, we compared the genomes and chemistry of 24 strains of uncultivated cyanobacteria, Prochloron didemni, that live symbiotically with tropical ascidians and that produce natural products isolated from the animals. Although several animal species were obtained along...
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