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Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity. [PDF]
Nat MicrobiolThe cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is Earth’s most abundant photosynthetic organism and crucial to oceanic ecosystems. However, its sensitivity to a changing climate remains unclear.
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Genome Rearrangement Shapes Prochlorococcus Ecological Adaptation [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018 Prochlorococcus , the most abundant and smallest known free-living photosynthetic microorganism, plays a key role in marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Prochlorococcus genome evolution is a fundamental issue related to how Prochlorococcus clades adapted to different ...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Prochlorococcus is a key member of open-ocean primary producer communities. Despite its importance, little is known about the predators that consume this cyanobacterium and make its biomass available to higher trophic levels.
Susanne Wilken +5 more
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Global scale phylogeography of functional traits and microdiversity in Prochlorococcus
The ISME Journal, 2023 Prochlorococcus is the most numerically abundant photosynthetic organism in the surface ocean. The Prochlorococcus high-light and warm-water adapted ecotype (HLII) is comprised of extensive microdiversity, but specific functional differences between ...
Lucas J. Ustick +2 more
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Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size
bioRxiv, 2023 In the oligotrophic sunlit ocean, the most abundant free-living planktonic bacterial lineages evolve convergently through genome reduction. The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus responsible for 10% global oxygen production is a prominent example.
Hao Zhang, F. Hellweger, Haiwei Luo
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Prochlorococcus : Approved for export [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 The oceans account for approximately half of global carbon fixation (1), but unlike plant-dominated terrestrial environments, marine photosynthesis is dominated by single-celled microbes, or phytoplankton. These phytoplankton are the engines that drive marine food webs and biogeochemistry. Among the vast variety of phytoplankton found in the open ocean,
Zackary I, Johnson, Yajuan, Lin
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Trophic interactions with heterotrophic bacteria limit the range of Prochlorococcus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth and is thought to be confined to low-latitude regions by its requirement for warm waters.
Christopher L. Follett +6 more
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Ultradian Growth in Prochlorococcus spp [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1998 ABSTRACT Species of the widespread marine prokaryote Prochlorococcus exhibited ultradian growth (faster than 1 division per day) both in situ and in culture, even though cell division is strictly phased to the light-dark cycle.
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Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean
Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2021 Marine picophytoplankton is the most abundant photosynthetic group on Earth; however, it is still underrepresented in dynamic ecosystem models. Major constraints for understanding its role in the ecosystem at a global scale are sparse data and lack of a ...
Natalia Visintini +2 more
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Nature Microbiology, 2022 Marine phytoplankton are responsible for about half of the photosynthesis on Earth. Many are mixotrophs, combining photosynthesis with heterotrophic assimilation of organic carbon, but the relative contribution of these two lifestyles is unclear.
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