Unicellular cyanobacteria with a new mode of life: The lack of photosynthetic oxygen evolution allows nitrogen fixation to proceed

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 783-790

  Bothe, Hermann ^a   Tripp, H James ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydobotrys; Marine nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria; Rhopalodia gibba; Spheroid bodies of diatoms; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation; UCYN A cyanobacteria; Unicellular cyanobacteria without photosystem II

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; NITROGENASE; ORGANIC CARBON;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CELL METABOLISM; CHLAMYDOBOTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOPALODIA GIBBA; SHORT SURVEY; SPHEROID CELL;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; THYLAKOIDS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLAMYDOBOTRYS; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EPITHEMIACEAE; RHOPALODIA GIBBA;

EID: 77957873696     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-010-0621-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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