Biogeography of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Genes in Marine Phytoplankton
Photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins are the mechanism by which energy enters the marine ecosystem. The dominant prokaryotic photoautotrophs are the cyanobacterial genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus that are defined by two distinct light-harvesting systems, chlorophyll-bound protein comple...
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2009-02-25.
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