Muñoz-Marin, María del Carmen


Publications
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A transcriptional cycle suited to daytime N2 fixation in the unicellular cyanobacterium Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa (UCYN-A)

Citation
Muñoz-Marín et al. (2018).
Names
Ca. Atelocyanobacterium thalassa
Abstract
AbstractThe symbiosis between a marine alga and a N2-fixing cyanobacterium (UCYN-A) is geographically widespread in the oceans and is important in the marine N cycle. UCYN-A is uncultivated, and is an unusual unicellular cyanobacterium because it lacks many metabolic functions, including oxygenic photosynthesis and carbon fixation, which are typical in cyanobacteria. It is now presumed to be an obligate symbiont of haptophytes closely related to Braarudosphaera bigelowii. N2-fìxing cyanobacteria