Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d.

Michael Kühl; Min Chen; Peter J Ralph; Ulrich Schreiber; Anthony W D Larkum

doi:10.1038/433820a

Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d.

Michael Kühl, Min Chen, Peter J Ralph, Ulrich Schreiber, Anthony W D Larkum

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Abstract

The cyanobacterium known as Acaryochloris marina is a unique phototroph that uses chlorophyll d as its principal light-harvesting pigment instead of chlorophyll a, the form commonly found in plants, algae and other cyanobacteria; this means that it depends on far-red light for photosynthesis. Here we demonstrate photosynthetic activity in Acaryochloris-like phototrophs that live underneath minute coral-reef invertebrates (didemnid ascidians) in a shaded niche enriched in near-infrared light. This discovery clarifies how these cyanobacteria are able to thrive as free-living organisms in their natural habitat.
Udgivelsesdato: 2005-Feb-24

Original language	English
Journal	Nature
Volume	433
Issue number	7028
Pages (from-to)	820
ISSN	0028-0836
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/433820a
Publication status	Published - 2005

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