Presence and absence of light-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis among Chlamydomonas green algae in an ice-covered Antarctic lake

The cold, permanently ice-covered waters of Lake Bonney, Antarctica, may seem like an uninviting place for an alga, but they are home to a diversity of photosynthetic life, including Chlamydomonas sp. UWO241, a psychrophile residing in the deep photic zone. Recently, we found that UWO241 has lost th...

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Main Authors: David Roy Smith, Marina Cvetkovska, Norman P. A. Hüner, Rachael Morgan-Kiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Communicative & Integrative Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2019.1676611