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Two subpopulations of Crocosphaera watsonii have distinct distributions in the North and South Pacific.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2016
Bench Shellie R, Frank Ildiko, Robidart Julie, Zehr Jonathan P
Abstract excerpt
Crocosphaera watsonii is a unicellular nitrogen (N2)-fixing cyanobacterium with ecological importance in oligotrophic oceans. In cultivated strains there are two phenotypes of C. watsonii (large and small cells) with differences that could differentially impact biogeochemical processes. Recent work has shown the phenotypes diverged through loss or addition of type-specific genes in a fraction of their genomes,...
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