Rapid diversification of marine picophytoplankton with dissimilar light- harvesting structures inferred from sequences of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (cyanobacteria)

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 188-201

  Urbach, Ena ^a,d   Scanlan, David J ^b   Distel, Daniel L ^c,e   Waterbury, John B ^c   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Gene clusters; Molecular evolution; Photosynthetic picoplankton; Picophytoplankton; Prochlorococcus; Prochlorophyte; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYCOBILISOMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROPHYTES; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031889272     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006294     Document Type: Article

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