Globally distributed uncultivated oceanic N2-fixing cyanobacteria lack oxygenic photosystem II

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5904, 2008, Pages 1110-1112

  Zehr, Jonathan P ^a   Bench, Shellie R ^a   Carter, Brandon J ^a   Hewson, Ian ^a   Niazi, Faheem ^b   Shi, Tuo ^a   Tripp, H James ^a   Affourtit, Jason P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 454 Life Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; EARTH; EVOLUTION; FIXATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE;

ARTICLE; CARBON FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 56449107383     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165340     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank J. Montoya, D. Karl, M. J. Church, J. K. Doggett, the Hawaii Ocean Time-series crew, and the captain and crew of the R/V Kilo Moana for facilitating sample collection and analysis. We also thank E. Mondragon, P. Moisander, M. Hogan, K. Pennebaker, R. Beinart, and the Zehr laboratory for technical support. This work was partially supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [ J.P.Z. and the Microbial Environmental Genomics: Modeling, Experimentation and Remote Sensing (MEGAMER) facility], NSF (OCE0425363) (J.P.Z.), and the NSF Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (CCF424599) (J.P.Z.). Support for sequencing was provided by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company. The GenBank accession numbers of the sequences generated from PCR in this study are EU187504 to EU187629 and FJ189800 to FJ190047. For a complete list of GenBank accessions, please see the supporting online material (21).