ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
Interactions of photosynthesis with genome size and function.
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- Acquisition and metabolism of carbon in the Ochrophyta other than diatoms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Evolution of Daily Gene Co-expression Patterns from Algae to Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Chloroplast Genomes in Low Light: A Case Study of the Endolithic Green Alga Ostreobium quekettii.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Environmental selection pressures related to iron utilization are involved in the loss of the flavodoxin gene from the plant genome.Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
- Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973, a fast growing cyanobacterial chassis for biosynthesis using light and CO₂.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Iron deficiency increases growth and nitrogen-fixation rates of phosphorus-deficient marine cyanobacteria.The ISME journal · 2015Article
- Cooperation and selfishness both occur during molecular evolution.Biology direct · 2014Review
- Two new fern chloroplasts and decelerated evolution linked to the long generation time in tree ferns.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- RNA function and phosphorus use by photosynthetic organisms.Frontiers in plant science · 2013Review
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Abstract
Photolithotrophs are divided between those that use water as their electron donor (Cyanobacteria and the photosynthetic eukaryotes) and those that use a different electron donor (the anoxygenic photolithotrophs, all of them Bacteria). Photolithotrophs with the most reduced genomes have more genes than do the corresponding chemoorganotrophs, and the fastest-growing photolithotrophs have significantly lower specific growth rates than the fastest-growing chemoorganotrophs. Slower growth results from diversion of resources into the photosynthetic apparatus, which accounts for about half of the cell protein. There are inherent dangers in (especially oxygenic) photosynthesis, including the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and blue light sensitivity of the water spitting apparatus. The extent to which photolithotrophs incur greater DNA damage and repair, and faster protein turnover with increased rRNA requirement, needs further investigation. A related source of environmental damage is ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation (280-320 nm), whose flux at the Earth's surface decreased as oxygen (and ozone) increased in the atmosphere. This oxygenation led to the requirements of defence against ROS, and decreasing availability to organisms of combined (non-dinitrogen) nitrogen and ferrous iron, and (indirectly) phosphorus, in the oxygenated biosphere. Differential codon usage in the genome and, especially, the proteome can lead to economies in the use of potentially growth-limiting elements.
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