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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Structural color in the bacterial domain: The ecogenomics of a 2-dimensional optical phenotype.

Aldert Zomer, Colin J Ingham, F A Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Álvaro Escobar Doncel, Gea T van de Kerkhof, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Sanne Schouten, Lukas Schertel, Karin H Müller, Laura Catón and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Aldert Zomer *Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CL, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0758-5190
Colin J Ingham *Hoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Utrecht 3515 GJ, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1508-019X
F A Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt *Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CH, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0037-0007
Álvaro Escobar DoncelHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Utrecht 3515 GJ, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2836-5055
Gea T van de KerkhofYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2427-2740
Raditijo HamidjajaHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Utrecht 3515 GJ, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5655-2299
Sanne SchoutenHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Utrecht 3515 GJ, the Netherlands.
Lukas SchertelYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Karin H MüllerDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4693-8558
Laura CatónHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Utrecht 3515 GJ, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2905-3045
Richard L HahnkeLeibniz Institute, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig 38124, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1105-6363
Henk BolhuisDepartment of Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje 1797 SZ, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4772-1898
Silvia VignoliniYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Bas E DutilhTheoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CH, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2329-7890

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 390713860EC | European Research Council (ERC) 101001637EC | European Research Council (ERC) 865694EC | HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme (Horizon Europe) 722842EC | HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme (Horizon Europe) 860125Isaac Newton Trust SNSF3Swiss National Science Foundation P2ZHP2_183998Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF 40B1-0_198708UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 2110570UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/V00364X/1ZonMw (Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development) 40-43500-98-4102/435004516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural color is an optical phenomenon resulting from light interacting with nanostructured materials. Although structural color (SC) is widespread in the tree of life, the underlying genetics and genomics are not well understood. Here, we collected and sequenced a set of 87 structurally colored bacterial isolates and 30 related strains lacking SC. Optical analysis of colonies indicated that diverse bacteria from at least two different phyla (

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Genome, BacterialBacteriaBacteroidetesColorGenome-Wide Association StudyMetagenomePhenotypePhylogenyProteobacteriabacterial genomicsiridescenceliving nanostructuresopticsphotonic crystal

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PMID38990940
PMCPMC11260094

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