Article
Impairment of O-antigen production confers resistance to grazing in a model amoeba-cyanobacterium predator-prey system.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Oct 2012
Simkovsky Ryan, Daniels Emy F, Tang Karen, Huynh Stacey C, Golden Susan S, Brahamsha Bianca
Abstract excerpt
The grazing activity of predators on photosynthetic organisms is a major mechanism of mortality and population restructuring in natural environments. Grazing is also one of the primary difficulties in growing cyanobacteria and other microalgae in large, open ponds for the production of biofuels, as contaminants destroy valuable biomass and prevent stable, continuous production of biofuel crops. To address this...
Topics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
- Amoeba
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Biomass
- DNA, Protozoan
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Microscopy, Phase-Contrast
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- O Antigens
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S