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SUBMITTER: Welsh EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2567498 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Welsh Eric A EA Liberton Michelle M Stöckel Jana J Loh Thomas T Elvitigala Thanura T Wang Chunyan C Wollam Aye A Fulton Robert S RS Clifton Sandra W SW Jacobs Jon M JM Aurora Rajeev R Ghosh Bijoy K BK Sherman Louis A LA Smith Richard D RD Wilson Richard K RK Pakrasi Himadri B HB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080923 39
Unicellular cyanobacteria have recently been recognized for their contributions to nitrogen fixation in marine environments, a function previously thought to be filled mainly by filamentous cyanobacteria such as Trichodesmium. To begin a systems level analysis of the physiology of the unicellular N(2)-fixing microbes, we have sequenced to completion the genome of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142, the first such organism. Cyanothece 51142 performs oxygenic photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation, separatin ...[more]