Dysregulation of photosynthetic genes in oceanic Prochlorococcus populations exposed to organic pollutants

Abstract The impact of organic pollutants on oceanic ecosystem functioning is largely unknown. Prochlorococcus, the most abundant known photosynthetic organism on Earth, has been suggested to be especially sensible to exposure to organic pollutants, but the sub-lethal effects of organic pollutants o...

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Main Authors: Maria-Carmen Fernández-Pinos, Maria Vila-Costa, Jesús M. Arrieta, Laura Morales, Belén González-Gaya, Benjamin Piña, Jordi Dachs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08425-9