ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology1999
Swimming marine Synechococcus strains with widely different photosynthetic pigment ratios form a monophyletic group.
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- Diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Insights from Culture Isolations, Clone Libraries, and Flow Cytometry.Microbial ecology · 2016Article
- Diversity and Distribution of Marine Synechococcus: Multiple Gene Phylogenies for Consensus Classification and Development of qPCR Assays for Sensitive Measurement of Clades in the Ocean.Frontiers in microbiology · 2012Article
- Light history influences the response of the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH7803 to oxidative stress.Plant physiology · 2011Article
- Ecological genomics of marine picocyanobacteria.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2009Review
- Unraveling the genomic mosaic of a ubiquitous genus of marine cyanobacteria.Genome biology · 2008Article
- SwmB, a 1.12-megadalton protein that is required for nonflagellar swimming motility in Synechococcus.Journal of bacteriology · 2007Article
- Diversity and evolution of phycobilisomes in marine Synechococcus spp.: a comparative genomics study.Genome biology · 2007Article
- Culture isolation and culture-independent clone libraries reveal new marine Synechococcus ecotypes with distinctive light and N physiologies.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2006Article
- Biochemical bases of type IV chromatic adaptation in marine Synechococcus spp.Journal of bacteriology · 2006Article
- A suppression subtractive hybridization approach reveals niche-specific genes that may be involved in predator avoidance in marine Synechococcus isolates.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2006Article
- Diverse and unique picocyanobacteria in Chesapeake Bay, revealed by 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer sequences.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2006Article
- Inactivation of swmA results in the loss of an outer cell layer in a swimming synechococcus strain.Journal of bacteriology · 2005Article
- Genetic diversity and temporal variation in the cyanophage community infecting marine Synechococcus species in Rhode Island's coastal waters.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2003Article
- Clade-specific 16S ribosomal DNA oligonucleotides reveal the predominance of a single marine Synechococcus clade throughout a stratified water column in the Red Sea.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2003Article
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Abstract
Unicellular marine cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in both coastal and oligotrophic regimes. The contribution of these organisms to primary production and nutrient cycling is substantial on a global scale. Natural populations of marine Synechococcus strains include multiple genetic lineages, but the link, if any, between unique phenotypic traits and specific genetic groups is still not understood. We studied the genetic diversity (as determined by the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase rpoC1 gene sequence) of a set of marine Synechococcus isolates that are able to swim. Our results show that these isolates form a monophyletic group. This finding represents the first example of correspondence between a physiological trait and a phylogenetic group in marine Synechococcus. In contrast, the phycourobilin (PUB)/phycoerythrobilin (PEB) pigment ratios of members of the motile clade varied considerably. An isolate obtained from the California Current (strain CC9703) displayed a pigment signature identical to that of nonmotile strain WH7803, which is considered a model for low-PUB/PEB-ratio strains, whereas several motile strains had higher PUB/PEB ratios than strain WH8103, which is considered a model for high-PUB/PEB-ratio strains. These findings indicate that the PUB/PEB pigment ratio is not a useful characteristic for defining phylogenetic groups of marine Synechococcus strains.
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