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Genetic diversity of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria UCYN-A and its prymnesiophyte host.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2014
Thompson Anne, Carter Brandon J, Turk-Kubo Kendra, Malfatti Francesca, Azam Farooq, Zehr Jonathan P
Abstract excerpt
Symbiotic interactions between nitrogen-fixing prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes are an integral part of biological nitrogen fixation at a global scale. One of these partnerships involves the cyanobacterium UCYN-A, which has been found in partnership with an uncultivated unicellular prymnesiophyte alga in open-ocean and coastal environments. Phylogenetic analysis of the UCYN-A nitrogenase gene (nifH)...
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